Takamaru Kikumaru
Takamaru and Kikumaru
- Release Date
- March, 17th, 1959
- Running Time
- 139 min
- Genre
- Feature
- Color
- -
- Screening Format
- -
[ Directed by ]
[ Cast ]
[ Staff ]
- SAWADA Kenji ── Original Story
- TAKAGAKI Mamoru ── Original Story
- KURODA Kiyomi ── Cinematography
[ Production Company ]
SHOCHIKU
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
SHOCHIKU
[ Story ]
Two brothers, Takamaru and Kikumaru, are living with their father, Hakuraku-Ou, until one day Hakuraku-Ou is killed by "Death's-Head" Ginnosuke, a villain skilled in the art of sorcery.
Hakuraku-Ou had long been seeking a Tiger Seal which, together with the Dragon Seal in his possession, would reveal the location of a huge ancestral fortune. But on the very night that the Tiger Seal was found, it was stolen by Tomomitsu, Ginnosuke's chief.
When the two brothers receive the Dragon Seal from their father just before his death they determine to go to Death's-Head Castle, in order to recover the Tiger Seal.
However, on their way, to Matsuyama Castle, they encounter many dangers.
Meanwhile, Katsura-Hime, also proceeds towards Death's-Head Castle to assist them aided by a doughty warrior, Tora-Ou, and a scholar named Hakusan, who has invented a submarine called the Black Whale.
Finally, they destroy the evil band, and the stolen Tiger Seal is recovered.
【Quoted from Unijapan Film Quarterly 1959 2.3】
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