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Samurai Banners (1969)

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?

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki

Screenplay by Shinobu Hashimoto, Takeo Kunihiro

DETAILS

RUNTIME 2h 50min GENRES Action, War, History STUDIOS TOHO, Mifune Productions COUNTRIES Japan LANGUAGES 日本語 More Details at TMDB

CAST

Toshirō Mifune Kansuke Yamamoto

Yoshiko Sakuma Princess Yufu

Kinnosuke Nakamura Shingen Takeda

Yūjirō Ishihara Kenshin Uesugi

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