Mission: Iron Castle (忍びの衆) 54 years old

The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, making the best 60′s B&W ninja movie ever seen in the otherwise color-dominated year of 1970. Issei Mori directs Hiroki Matsukata as the reluctant leader of a small band of spies charged with kidnapping a noblewoman from a heavily ninja-proofed castle. The finality of the air slowly began to fill like smoke, and in all that had become dark the loyalty of the Ninja who dared to go shone like light as they entered a world shrouded in mystery. Things do not go as planned in what is possibly the darkest and most fatalistic of the already noir-ish 60′s fare. Both the decade and it’s distinctive style of shinobi cinema went out on a high note with Mission Iron Castle.

Credits

Saburo Date as

Asao Uchida as

Rokkô Toura as

Shiho Fujimura as

Kôjirô Hongô as

Tôru Minegishi as

Mission: Iron Castle Cast

Name	Character
Saburo Date He was 45, 67 years old when he died
Asao Uchida He was 49, 76 years old when he died
Rokkô Toura He was 39, 62 years old when he died
Shiho Fujimura She was 31, now 85 years old
Kôjirô Hongô He was 31, 74 years old when he died
Tôru Minegishi He was 26, 65 years old when he died
Michiyo Ookusu She was 23, now 78 years old
Taketoshi Naito He was 43, 86 years old when he died
Hiroki Matsukata He was 27, 74 years old when he died	as Yoshiro

Mission: Iron Castle Crew

Name	Department
Kazuo Mori as Director. He was 59 (78) years old when He died	Directing
Fujio Morita as Director of Photography. He was 42 (86) years old when He died	Camera
Toshio Taniguchi as Editor. He was 56 (100) years old when He died	Editing
Hajime Kaburagi as Original Music Composer. He was 43 (now 98) years old	Sound
Ryōtarō Shiba as Original Story. He was 46 (72) years old when He died	Writing
Shigenori Shimoishizaka as Art Direction.	Art
Iwao Ôtani as Sound.	Sound

Mission: Iron Castle (54 years)

Release day: Saturday, February 07, 1970
Runtime: 79 minutes