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Samurai Banners
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?
Cast
- Toshirō Mifune as Kansuke Yamamoto
- Yoshiko Sakuma as Princess Yufu
- Kinnosuke Nakamura as Shingen Takeda
- Yūjirō Ishihara as Kenshin Uesugi
- Katsuo Nakamura as Nobusato Itagaki
- Umenosuke Nakamura as Hagiwara Yaemon
- Masakazu Tamura as Nobushige Takeda
- Nakamura Kanzaburo as Takeda Katsuyori
- Ken Ogata as Hatanaka Buhei
- Mayumi Ozora as Princess Okoto
- Masumi Harukawa as Buhei's wife
- Haruko Tōgō
Details
- Director
- Hiroshi Inagaki
- Released
- March 1, 1969
- Runtime
- 2h 50m
- Genres
- Action, War, History
- Studio
- TOHO and Mifune Productions
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 7.4 / 10 from 28 votes
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