Samurai Saga (1959)
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
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Toshirō Mifune as Heihachiro Komaki |
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Yōko Tsukasa as Lady Ochii / Princess Chiyo |
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Akira Takarada as Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe |
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Keiko Awaji as Nanae |
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Seizaburō Kawazu as Nagashima |
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Kamatari Fujiwara as Rakuzo the sake seller (uncredited) |
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Akihiko Hirata as Akaboshi |
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Eiko Miyoshi as Okuni |
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Sachio Sakai as (uncredited) |
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Yoshibumi Tajima as (uncredited) |
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Akira Tani as (uncredited) |
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Yutaka Sada as (uncredited) |
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Senkichi Ōmura as (uncredited) |
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Hideyo Amamoto as (uncredited) |
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Haruo Tanaka as (uncredited) |
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Kichijirō Ueda as (uncredited) |
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Fumindo Matsuo as (uncredited) |
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Chieko Nakakita as (uncredited) |
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Akira Sera as (uncredited) |
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Mitsuo Tsuda as (uncredited) |
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Yasuhisa Tsutsumi as (uncredited) |
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Setsuko Wakayama as (uncredited) |
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Ren Yamamoto as (uncredited) |
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Shin Ōtomo as (uncredited) |
| Directing | Hiroshi Inagaki | Director |
| Writing | Hiroshi Inagaki | Writer |
| Production | Tomoyuki Tanaka | Producer |
| Sound | Akira Ifukube | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Kazuo Yamada | Director of Photography |
| Art | Yoshiaki Ito | Art Direction |
| Sound | Yoshio Nishikawa | Sound |
| Directing | Teruo Maru | Assistant Director |
| Art | Kisaku Ito | Production Design |
| Writing | Edmond Rostand | Theatre Play |
