Owls' Castle (1999)
1999 film directed by Masahiro Shinoda
- Released
- 30 October 1999
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Genre
- Ninja film
- Director
- Masahiro Shinoda
- Screenplay
- Masahiro Shinoda
- Music
- Joji Yuasa
- Cinematography
- Tatsuo Suzuki
- Starring
- Kiichi Nakai, Mayu Tsuruta, Riona Hazuki, Takaya Kamikawa, Mako, Jinpachi Nezu
- Running time
- 138 minutes
- Distributor
- Toho
- Based on
- Fukurō no Shiro
Owls' Castle (Japanese: 梟の城, Hepburn: Fukurō no Shiro) 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 Ryōtarō Shiba's 1959 novel Fukurō no Shiro, the first being the 1963 film Castle of Owls. Toho released the film on October 30, 1999, in Japan.
More films directed by Masahiro Shinoda
- Assassination 1964
- Samurai Spy 1965
External links
Facts from Wikidata Q5231437 (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.