Description:

Fuji Ni Tatsu Kage - 1805 and the Shogun, fearing attacks from within and without, plans to build a training castle on the foothills of Mt. Fuji.

Utilizing the most advanced construction techniques, two master architects, Sato and Hakuten are selected to compete for the honor of building the castle. But Hakuten wants to win at all at at all costs, bribery, deception and murder mean nothing to him, and the villagers whose land he intends to take are insignificant to his glorious ambitions.

Can Sato stop this madman from destroying the villages, will the families of the dead gain their revenge, OR will Hakuten gain the glory he so desperately seeks?

Based on the book by Kyoji Shirai and shot on location in Susono, Reiminefuji.

STARRING: ICHIKAWA UTAEMON, KITAOJI KINYA, SATOMI KOTARO

1957 - JAPANESE with OPTIONAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES - COLOR - 16:9 ANAMOPRHIC WIDESCREEN - 104 MINUTES