Samurai Banners
movie
Released March 01, 1969
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?
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
Crew
Hiroshi Inagaki
as
Director
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Kazuo Yamada
as
Director of Photography
Yasushi Inoue
as
Novel
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Yoshihiro Araki
as
Editor
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Hiroshi Ueda
as
Art Direction
Toshirō Mifune
as
Producer
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Takeo Kunihiro
as
Screenplay
Hiroshi Inagaki
as
Producer
Shinobu Hashimoto
as
Screenplay
Tomoyuki Tanaka
as
Producer
Masaru Satō
as
Original Music Composer
Shinobu Hashimoto
as
Adaptation