Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 1999


Owls' Castle

Buy Owls' Castle now from Amazon

First, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the movie. And once you've experienced the movie, tell everyone what you thought about it.

Wikipedia article




is a 1999 Japanese ninja-themed jidaigeki film directed by Masahiro Shinoda. It was co-written by Shinoda and Katsuo Naruse, and stars Kiichi Nakai It is the second adaptation of Rytar Shiba's 1959 novel 'Fukur no Shiro', the first being the 1963 film 'Castle of Owls'.

Cast



* Kiichi Nakai as Jz Tsuzura

* Takaya Kamikawa as Gohei Kazama

* Mayu Tsuruta as Kohagi

* Riona Hazuki as Kisaru

* Shhei Hino as Kuroami

* Akiji Kobayashi

* Akira Nakao

* Mako Iwamatsu as Toyotomi Hideyoshi

* Jinpachi Nezu as Hattori Hanz

* Kinnosuke Hannayagi as Ishida Mitsunari

* Shima Iwashita

* Masahiko Tsugawa

* Atsuo Nakamura

Production



Nintendo was a production partner on the film, and the use of special effects and computer-generated imagery was widely touted in the film's marketing.

Awards and accolades



*Nikkan Sports Film Awards: Ishihara Yujiro Award (1999).

*Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival: Best Director - Masahiro Shinoda (2000).

*Japanese Academy Awards: Best Art Direction - Yoshinobu Nishioka (2000). The film also received nine Japanese Academy Award nominations.

References




Buy Owls' Castle now from Amazon

<-- Return to movies from 1999



This work is released under CC-BY-SA. Some or all of this content attributed to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1110554764.