 For the castle of Lady Sué's family, he used the ruins of the custom-constructed Azusa castle, made by Kurosawa's production crew near Mount Fuji.Hidetora's third castle, which was burned to the ground, was a real building which Kurosawa built on the slopes of Mount Fuji.No miniatures were used for that segment, and Tatsuya Nakadai had to do the scene where Hidetora flees the castle in one take.