Film · Drama, History
Shadow Over Fuji (1957)
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!
- Director
- Yasushi Sasaki
- Writers
- Tadashi Ogawa, Kyōji Shirai
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Release date
- October 29, 1957
- Original title
- 富士に立つ影
Cast
Utaemon IchikawaSato
Eitarō ShindōHakuten
Kōtarō SatomiBunroku
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
