Samurai Banners (1969)

  • NR
  • 03/01/1969 (JP)
  • Action, War, History
  • 2h 45m

Overview

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?

Hiroshi Inagaki

Director

Yasushi Inoue

Novel

Shinobu Hashimoto

Screenplay

Takeo Kunihiro

Screenplay

Cast

Toshirō Mifune's headshot

Toshirō Mifune

Kansuke Yamamoto
Yoshiko Sakuma's headshot

Yoshiko Sakuma

Princess Yufu
Kinnosuke Nakamura's headshot

Kinnosuke Nakamura

Shingen Takeda
Yūjirō Ishihara's headshot

Yūjirō Ishihara

Kenshin Uesugi
Katsuo Nakamura's headshot

Katsuo Nakamura

Nobusato Itagaki
Umenosuke Nakamura's headshot

Umenosuke Nakamura

Hagiwara Yaemon
Masakazu Tamura's headshot

Masakazu Tamura

Nobushige Takeda
Nakamura Kanzaburo's headshot

Nakamura Kanzaburo

Takeda Katsuyori

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