Samurai Banners (1969)
2h 45m
Running Time
March 1, 1969Release Date
Samurai Banners (1969)
2h 45m
Running Time
March 1, 1969Release Date
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Plot.
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 & Crew.
Toshirō Mifune
Kansuke Yamamoto
Yoshiko Sakuma
Princess Yufu
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Shingen Takeda
Katsuo Nakamura
Nobusato Itagaki
Yūjirō Ishihara
Kenshin Uesugi
Umenosuke Nakamura
Hagiwara Yaemon
Hiroshi Inagaki
Director
Shinobu Hashimoto
Writer
Masakazu Tamura
Nobushige Takeda
Nakamura Kanzaburo
Takeda Katsuyori
Yasushi Inoue
Writer
Takeo Kunihiro
Writer
Ken Ogata
Hatanaka Buhei
Yoshio Nishikawa
Producer
Mayumi Ozora
Princess Okoto
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Producer
Masumi Harukawa
Buhei's wife
Akihiko Hirata
Suwa Yorishige
Nakajirō Tomita
Takada Noriyori
Kitijiro Murata
Toda Awaji
Ryōsuke Kagawa
Nagasaka Yorihiro
Jotaro Togami
Murakami Yoshikiyo
Takashi Shimura
Obu Toramasa
Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
Kasahara Kiyoshige
Kan'emon Nakamura
Nobukato Itagaki
Masaru Satō
Original Music Composer
Kazuo Yamada
Director of Photography
Yoshihiro Araki
Editor
Hiroshi Ueda
Art Direction
Yoshiko Kuga
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Akira Kubo
Media.
Details.
Release DateMarch 1, 1969
Original Name風林火山
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 45m
Genres
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Wiki.
Samurai Banners (Japanese: 風林火山, Hepburn: Fūrin Kazan) is a Japanese samurai drama film released in 1969. It was directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and is based on the novel Furin kazan by Yasushi Inoue.