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Samurai Banners
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Title: Samurai Banners

Release Date: 1 Mar 1969

Runtime: 2h 45m

Genre: Action, War, History

Director: TOHO, Mifune Productions

Production Companies: TOHO, Mifune Productions

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?

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Ratings

Average Vote: 7.4 (18 votes)

Cast

  • Kansuke Yamamoto: Toshirō Mifune
  • Princess Yufu: Yoshiko Sakuma
  • Shingen Takeda: Kinnosuke Nakamura
  • Kenshin Uesugi: Yūjirō Ishihara
  • Nobusato Itagaki: Katsuo Nakamura
  • Hagiwara Yaemon: Umenosuke Nakamura
  • Nobushige Takeda: Masakazu Tamura
  • Takeda Katsuyori: Nakamura Kanzaburo
  • Hatanaka Buhei: Ken Ogata
  • Princess Okoto: Mayumi Ozora
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