Castle Under Fiery Skies (火天の城)

Production: ION COSMETICS YOMIURI RENGO ADVERTISING AGENCY TOEI CM FILM FACE CO, LTD.

Production Company: FILM FACE Produced in Cooperation with: TOEI KYOTO FILM STUDIO

Executive Producer: KAWAHATA Susumu

CASTLE UNDER FIERY SKIES

This is a tale from 500 years ago.

Japan was still in a time of turmoil and war.

Oda Nobunaga, ruler of Owari Province,

built a type of castle previously unseen to the world.

Its name, Azuchi Castle.

But, for vanishing in a mere three years,

it has come to be called "The Phantom Castle."

The year 1576, Atsuta.

It's slipping! It's slipping over here!

Kuma! Stop!

Kuma!

Kuma.

You cannot make the wood listen to you by using brute force.

Handle it more gently

Like a woman, okay?

Dad!

The samurai are coming this way

it's the lord, Sir Oda!

What?

Okabe Mataemon!

Is Atsuta's shrine and palace builder, Okabe Mataemon here?!

PALACE BOARD GROUP OF CARPENTERS Is Atsuta's shrine and palace builder, Okabe Mataemon here?!

PALACE BOARD GROUP OF CARPENTERS

PALACE BOARD GROUP OF CARPENTERS Yes, sir!

PALACE BOARD GROUP OF CARPENTERS

My lord, Mataemon at your service.

Mataemon...

I'm thirsty

If I may humbly ask...

Is there anything my lord,

still wishes from me?

Mount Azuchi.

Mount Azuchi?

All of it...

All of it?

Shall be made into a castle.

You aim to make an entire mountain into a castle?

The main keep five floors high!

A main keep standing five floors high, that is something I have not seen nor heard of.

Can you do it?

Does your silence mean you can't?

You may begin designing it now.

First of all,

whether you can build a five storied building or not,

answer me this one thing!

I will build it.

Well said.

Magistrate.

It seems that Okabe Mataemon of Atsuta's shrine and palace carpenters,

has happily undertaken building a castle with a five story main keep.

What? Mataemon has?

A country carpenter who doesn't know his place!

Magistrate of Castle Construction,

please tell me you're not leaving this to Mataemon?

This was decided by the lord.

By the lord? - Yes.

But it's impossible for that country carpenter to erect a five floor castle keep.

If anyone can make him do it, it's the lord.

Hey Chief! Is the master serious?

A five floors tall keep?

Of course.

It'll be a once in a lifetime undertaking!

A five floor castle keep, there's no way we can build that!

It's just too much for us.

Impossible, just impossible!

If we follow master, we can do it.

Master's hand is the hand of god.

One day I will be a carpenter of the same caliber as Master.

Me 1100!

As if you ever could!

Dear.

Please, rest a little.

A five story tall castle keep, sounds like a dream, doesn't it?

Yes, never and nowhere,

has a carpenter built a main keep like this before.

Then you will be the first.

You'll say anything so lightly

You're really building the castle, aren't you?

Oh, Tazu,

I'm going to Azuchi tomorrow, please do the preparations.

Lake Nio (aka Lake Biwa).

Don't fall behind to the lord!

Over there!

You're too slow!

Drive the stake down! String up the rope!

Don't fall behind to the lord!

You're too slow!

Hurry!

Hurry!

Sir Kimura!

Sir Kimura!

What is happening here?

Isn't it obvious?! It's the territory for the castle!

What?

Hurry! - The castle's?

From that mountain top...

To way over there? - Yeah!

I've never heard of a castle this size!

The lord says outrageous things.

Hey! Hurry up!

You're too slow!

Over there!

My lord!

Hey!

I'm sorry to have kept you waiting.

Mataemon. - Yes, sir!

What can you see?

Lake Nio.

Behind that is the Hira mountain ridges...

My lord...

At that mountains foot lies Sekigahara.

And behind that?

Owari...

Mikawa...

Totomi...

Suruga, Sagami and Musashi.

Over there is Osaka, and the port town of Sakai.

Beyond that is the capital, Kyoto, where the emperor lives.

This place...

in the heart of the nation of Japan.

That is why my lord is planning

Azuchi Castle here.

Are you truly building this castle all the way

throughout the distant roped off territory below?

Building earthen wall embankments,

I will protect the people from this world of war.

The people living in the nation of Japan...

who else will care for them?

The Japanese people.

Mataemon. - Yes, sir!

This is the future of battle.

Yes, sir!

Fire!

My lord, I have a question.

What is that round thing?

"Mapa Mundo."

Wasn't it, Orugan? - Yes, my lord.

Is it an explosive?

You guessed right.

You spin it like this...

and BOOM!

"Mapa" means "map",

"mundo" means "the world."

it's a "globe."

"Globe?"

The world is round like this.

Japan is right here.

This small island country

Mataemon. - Yes, sir!

The faraway Western Christian's castles, are apparently wide open,

all the way up to the roofs.

Let's build our Azuchi Castle

without floors and ceilings up to the fourth floor.

Make it an atrium.

I'll have the main keep as my throne.

If I may..

The main keep, an atrium,

and my lord, do you intend to live there?

Of course.

That's...

I've changed my mind.

The one who'll build the castle,

shall be decided by a blueprint competition.

BLUEPRINT DIRECTIVE

The lord is not a kind man!

In the end, it's too big a job for a country carpenter like Mataemon.

Mataemon was just used to get the competition's attention!

You are too loud!

Hey!

It's a treat from the high priest!

Dad!

Look, dad is back!

Here!

Rin, did you know?

This world is round, just like this melon.

Nonsense!

No matter how far you go, the world is flat!

If it was round, the ocean water would spill.

Lord Nobunaga said that it's round!

Lord Nobunaga...

Must be a liar then!

You're one to talk.

Making fun of the lord...

The builder will be decided with

a blueprint competition.

Blueprint competition?

The competition will be the builder of Kinkaku-ji Temple,

Ikegami Goroemon of the Ikegami family

and the builder of a giant Buddha in Nara,

Nagai Magodayu of the Nagai clan.

You better not lose to them!

Leave it to us!

You lot!

Let's show them the power and skill of the Okabe Clan!

Yeah!

We'll need 40,000 units of lumber to build the main keep.