The Tokugawa Treasure: Final Excavation
- Media type
- Film
徳川埋蔵金 大発掘 最終回スペシャル · The Tokugawa Treasure: Final Excavation · MOVIE
Documentary, TV Movie 1994
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Between 1990 and 1993, Japan's TBS network spent ¥350 million digging into the side of Mount Akagi, searching for the legendary shogunate gold that vanished during the Meiji Restoration. This 1994 TV movie compiles the four-year excavation into a single 95-minute documentary: copywriter Shigesato Itoi as the unlikely captain, the Mizuno family's three-generation obsession, American psychics consulted in earnest, and contractor Mochizuki running heavy machinery deeper into the mountain than anyone had gone before.