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Fukurō no shiro [digital videodisc] = Owls' castle / [a production of the Fukuro no Shiro Project ; screenplay, Masahiro Shinoda & Katsuo Naruse ; producers, Masaru Kakutani & Masaru Koibuchi ; a Hyogensha production ; directed by Masahiro Shinoda].

Seoul : Dawoori Entertainment, c2004.

Revenge -- Drama.

Ninja -- Drama.

Motion pictures, Japanese.

2 videodiscs (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Anamorphic widescreen.

disc 1. The movie -- disc 2. Special features.

This spin on the ninja genre opens in 1581 with the invasion of Iga, a "hidden land," by Oda, a rampaging warlord. 50,000 troops sweep through Iga - a province already developing as a center for ninja arts - slaughtering everyone and everything in their path. Among the few to survive is a ninja by the name of Juzo. Ten years later, when a new warlord, Toyotomi, has taken power, Juzo is sought out by his former master to kill the tyrant, who is busy making plans to invade Korea and Ming-dynasty China. As Juzo embarks on his mission, he enters into a game of mutual complicity with the enigmatic Kohagi, a spy for Toyotomi who nearly kills and then seduces the ninja. When Juzo finally does arrive at Toyotomi's castle, he meets Kazama, another Iga ninja, who wants to stop Juzo so that he can get enough credibility to become a legitimate samurai.

Board of Film Censors, Singapore: NC16.

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