Film

Samurai Banners

1969 · 2h 50m · Action · War · History

IMDb

7.1

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?

Toshirō Mifune

Kansuke Yamamoto

Yoshiko Sakuma

Princess Yufu

Kinnosuke Nakamura

Shingen Takeda

Yūjirō Ishihara

Kenshin Uesugi

Katsuo Nakamura

Nobusato Itagaki

Umenosuke Nakamura

Hagiwara Yaemon

Masakazu Tamura

Nobushige Takeda

Nakamura Kanzaburo

Takeda Katsuyori

Ken Ogata

Hatanaka Buhei

Mayumi Ozora

Princess Okoto

Masumi Harukawa

Buhei's wife

Haruko Tōgō

Keiko Sawai

Yoshiko Kuga

Akihiko Hirata

Suwa Yorishige

Yoshio Tsuchiya

• Hiroshi InagakiDirector · Producer
• Takeo KunihiroScreenplay
• Shinobu HashimotoScreenplay
• Yasushi InoueNovel
• Toshirō MifuneProducer
• Tomoyuki TanakaProducer
• Kazuo YamadaDirector of Photography
• Masaru SatōOriginal Music Composer
• Yoshihiro ArakiEditor

Release date

March 1, 1969

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

2h 50m

Genres

Action, War, History

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