Samurai Banners

Samurai Banners

1969
2h 45min

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?

Samurai Banners

Storyline

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
Toshirō Mifune
Kansuke Yamamoto
Yoshiko Sakuma
Yoshiko Sakuma
Princess Yufu
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Shingen Takeda
Yūjirō Ishihara
Yūjirō Ishihara
Kenshin Uesugi
Katsuo Nakamura
Katsuo Nakamura
Nobusato Itagaki
Umenosuke Nakamura
Umenosuke Nakamura
Hagiwara Yaemon
Masakazu Tamura
Masakazu Tamura
Nobushige Takeda
Nakamura Kanzaburo
Nakamura Kanzaburo
Takeda Katsuyori
Ken Ogata
Ken Ogata
Hatanaka Buhei
Mayumi Ozora
Mayumi Ozora
Princess Okoto
Masumi Harukawa
Masumi Harukawa
Buhei's wife
Haruko Tōgō
Haruko Tōgō
Acting
Keiko Sawai
Keiko Sawai
Acting
Yoshiko Kuga
Yoshiko Kuga
Acting
Akihiko Hirata
Akihiko Hirata
Suwa Yorishige
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Acting
Akira Kubo
Akira Kubo
Acting
Ichirō Nakatani
Ichirō Nakatani
Acting
Sachio Sakai
Sachio Sakai
Acting
Nakajirō Tomita
Nakajirō Tomita
Takada Noriyori
Tetsurō Sagawa
Tetsurō Sagawa
Acting
Jun'ichirō Mukai
Acting
Kitijiro Murata
Toda Awaji
Ryunosuke Yamazaki
Acting
Ryōsuke Kagawa
Ryōsuke Kagawa
Nagasaka Yorihiro
Masao Shimizu
Masao Shimizu
Acting
Jotaro Togami
Jotaro Togami
Murakami Yoshikiyo
Kôji Nanbara
Kôji Nanbara
Acting
Takashi Shimura
Takashi Shimura
Obu Toramasa
Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
Kasahara Kiyoshige
Kan'emon Nakamura
Kan'emon Nakamura
Nobukato Itagaki
More like this
Logo
Nuxt Movies
Made with

Data provided by 

This project uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

Language: