Samurai Banners
Action
War
History
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?
Status:
Released
Release Date:
1969-03-01
Runtime:
2h 45m
Director:
Hiroshi Inagaki
Writer:
Takeo Kunihiro, Shinobu Hashimoto
Top Cast
Toshirō Mifune
Kansuke Yamamoto
Yoshiko Sakuma
Princess Yufu
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Shingen Takeda
Yūjirō Ishihara
Kenshin Uesugi
Katsuo Nakamura
Nobusato Itagaki
Umenosuke Nakamura
Hagiwara Yaemon
Masakazu Tamura
Nobushige Takeda
Nakamura Kanzaburo
Takeda Katsuyori
Ken Ogata
Hatanaka Buhei
Mayumi Ozora
Princess Okoto
Masumi Harukawa
Buhei's wife
Haruko Tōgō
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