

29/10/1957
The year is 1805. Napoleon ruled Europe. Ienari is the 11th Tokugawa Shogun. An incident, which was an open official secret, took place on the foothills of Mt. Fuji. Fearing attacks from within and without, the Shogunate planned to build a training castle utilizing the most advanced techniques. Two master castle architects, Sato Kikutaro and Kumai Hakuten, were selected to compete for the honor of building this castle. Lord Mizuno Dewa has even ordered the townspeople to assist both sides with their land surveys and preparations. This leads to fear on the part of farmers that their land will be taken away from them, and sets off a series of events which rock the nation to its very roots. With an all-star cast, this is an important story with relevance to current times. One of Ichikawa Utaemon's finest performances, a true classic!

Utaemon Ichikawa
as Sato

Eitarō Shindō
as Hakuten

Kōtarō Satomi
as Bunroku

Kinya Kitaoji
as

Yumiko Hasegawa
as

Denjirō Ōkōchi
as

Eitarō Shindō
as

Isao Yamagata
as

Satomi Oka
as

Hiroko Sakuramachi
as

Shunji Sakai
as

Eriko Yoshida
as

Tsukie Matsuura
as

Kusuo Abe
as

Eijirō Sekine
as

Michimaro Otabe
as

Kunio Kaga
as

Kodayu Ichikawa
as

Kanji Koshiba
as

Momonosuke Ichikawa
as

Hiroshi Yamate
as

Hideo Higashi
as

Ryōei Itō
as

Ikuo Oka
as

Kyoji Sugi
as

Atsushi Watanabe
as

Koji Arima
as

Eiko Maruyama
as

Chiyoko Komine
as

Kenji Nagata
as

Hiroshi Mizuno
as

Kinnosuke Takamatsu
as

Hachiro Yamauchi
as

Kazuo Kishida
as
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