Movie: Samurai Banners

Top 10 Billed Cast

Toshirō Mifune
三船敏郎

Kansuke Yamamoto

Yoshiko Sakuma
佐久間良子

Princess Yufu

Kinnosuke Nakamura
萬屋錦之介

Shingen Takeda

Yūjirō Ishihara
石原裕次郎

Kenshin Uesugi

Katsuo Nakamura
中村嘉葎雄

Nobusato Itagaki

Umenosuke Nakamura
四代目 中村梅之助

Hagiwara Yaemon

Masakazu Tamura
田村正和

Nobushige Takeda

Nakamura Kanzaburo
十八代目中村勘三郎

Takeda Katsuyori

Ken Ogata
緒形拳

Hatanaka Buhei

Mayumi Ozora
大空眞弓

Princess Okoto

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    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?

  • Release Date

    1969-03-01

  • Average

    7.625

  • Rating:

    3.8 starts
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    日本語
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