Overview
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!
Cast
Utaemon Ichikawa
Sato
Eitarō Shindō
Hakuten
Kōtarō Satomi
Bunroku
Kinya Kitaoji
Yumiko Hasegawa
Denjirō Ōkōchi
Eitarō Shindō
Isao Yamagata
Satomi Oka
Hiroko Sakuramachi
Shunji Sakai
Eriko Yoshida
Tsukie Matsuura
Kusuo Abe
Eijirō Sekine
Michimaro Otabe
Kunio Kaga
Kodayu Ichikawa
Kanji Koshiba
Momonosuke Ichikawa
Hiroshi Yamate
Hideo Higashi
Ryōei Itō
Ikuo Oka
Kyoji Sugi
Atsushi Watanabe
Koji Arima
Eiko Maruyama
Chiyoko Komine
Kenji Nagata
Hiroshi Mizuno
Kinnosuke Takamatsu
Hachiro Yamauchi
Kazuo Kishida
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