Samurai Banners (1969)

Samurai Banners (1969)

1969-03-01 Japan 165 Min. PG-13
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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

三船敏郎 is Kansuke Yamamoto
Kansuke Yamamoto
佐久間良子 is Princess Yufu
Princess Yufu
萬屋錦之介 is Shingen Takeda
Shingen Takeda
石原裕次郎 is Kenshin Uesugi
Kenshin Uesugi
中村嘉葎雄 is Nobusato Itagaki
Nobusato Itagaki
四代目 中村梅之助 is Hagiwara Yaemon
田村正和 is Nobushige Takeda
Nobushige Takeda
十八代目中村勘三郎 is Takeda Katsuyori
緒形拳 is Hatanaka Buhei
Hatanaka Buhei
大空眞弓 is Princess Okoto
Princess Okoto
春川ますみ is Buhei's wife
Buhei's wife