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Samurai Banners (1969)

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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?

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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
  • Keiko Sawai Keiko Sawai
  • Yoshiko Kuga Yoshiko Kuga
  • Akihiko Hirata Akihiko Hirata Suwa Yorishige
  • Yoshio Tsuchiya Yoshio Tsuchiya
  • Akira Kubo Akira Kubo
  • Ichirō Nakatani Ichirō Nakatani

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