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Samurai Banners

Samurai Banners

1969•2h 50m•7.5/10
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7.5/10(23)

Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife as a concubine. He then convinces the widow, Princess Yu, to accept this arrangement and to bear Takeda a son. He pledges them his life. He then spends years using treachery, poetic sensibility, military and political strategy to expand Takeda's realm, advance the claim of Yu's son as the heir, and prepare for an ultimate battle with the forces of Echigo. Has Kansuke overreached? Are his dreams, blinded by love, too big?

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Production

TOHO, Mifune Productions

Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Toshirō Mifune

Toshirō Mifune

Kansuke Yamamoto

Yoshiko Sakuma

Yoshiko Sakuma

Princess Yufu

Kinnosuke Nakamura

Kinnosuke Nakamura

Shingen Takeda

Yūjirō Ishihara

Yūjirō Ishihara

Kenshin Uesugi

Katsuo Nakamura

Nobusato Itagaki

Umenosuke Nakamura

Umenosuke Nakamura

Hagiwara Yaemon

Masakazu Tamura

Masakazu Tamura

Nobushige Takeda

Nakamura Kanzaburo

Nakamura Kanzaburo

Takeda Katsuyori

Ken Ogata

Ken Ogata

Hatanaka Buhei

Mayumi Ozora

Mayumi Ozora

Princess Okoto

Masumi Harukawa

Masumi Harukawa

Buhei's wife

Haruko Tōgō

Haruko Tōgō

Keiko Sawai

Keiko Sawai

Yoshiko Kuga

Yoshiko Kuga

Akihiko Hirata

Akihiko Hirata

Suwa Yorishige

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Akira Kubo

Akira Kubo

Ichirō Nakatani

Ichirō Nakatani

Sachio Sakai

Sachio Sakai

Nakajirō Tomita

Nakajirō Tomita

Takada Noriyori

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