Owls' Castle
| Owls' Castle | |
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| Directed by | Masahiro Shinoda |
| Screenplay by | Masahiro Shinoda Katsuo Naruse |
| Based on | Fukurō no Shiro by Ryōtarō Shiba |
| Produced by | Shigeaki Hazama Masaru Koibuchi |
| Starring | Kiichi Nakai Mayu Tsuruta Riona Hazuki |
| Cinematography | Tatsuo Suzuki |
| Edited by | Hiroshi Yoshida |
| Music by | Joji Yuasa |
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| Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 138 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Budget | ¥1,300,000,000 |
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.