Castle of Owls (1963)
1963 film by Eiichi Kudo
- Released
- 1963
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Genre
- Ninja film
- Director
- Eiichi Kudo
- Starring
- Ryūtarō Ōtomo
- Running time
- 91 minutes
- Based on
- Fukurō no Shiro
Fukurō no Shiro (梟の城, Owls' Castle) is the ninja-themed 1959 debut novel of Japanese author Ryōtarō Shiba, which won him the Naoki Prize in 1960 after the story was published by Kodansha. It has been adapted into a 3-part "Naoki Award Series" TV broadcast on the Fuji Television Network in 1960, and into two jidaigeki-genre films, Castle of Owls in 1963 and Owls' Castle in 1999.
More films directed by Eiichi Kudo
- 13 Assassins 1963
- Hissatsu Shiokinin 1973
- Hissatsu Shiokiya Kagyō 1975
- Hissatsu Karakurinin Keppūhen 1976
- Hissatsu! III Ura ka Omote ka 1986
External links
Facts from Wikidata Q27590053 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.