Samurai Banners (1969)
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?
Director:
Hiroshi Inagaki
Writers:
Shinobu Hashimoto, Takeo Kunihiro.
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Toshirō Mifune as Kansuke Yamamoto |
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Yoshiko Sakuma as Princess Yufu |
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Kinnosuke Nakamura as Shingen Takeda |
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Yūjirō Ishihara as Kenshin Uesugi |
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Katsuo Nakamura as Nobusato Itagaki |
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Umenosuke Nakamura as Hagiwara Yaemon |
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Masakazu Tamura as Nobushige Takeda |
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Nakamura Kanzaburo as Takeda Katsuyori |
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Ken Ogata as Hatanaka Buhei |
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Mayumi Ozora as Princess Okoto |
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Masumi Harukawa as Buhei's wife |
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Haruko Tōgō as |
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Keiko Sawai as |
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Yoshiko Kuga as |
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Akihiko Hirata as Suwa Yorishige |
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Yoshio Tsuchiya as |
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Akira Kubo as |
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Ichirō Nakatani as |
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Sachio Sakai as |
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Nakajirō Tomita as Takada Noriyori |
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Tetsurō Sagawa as |
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Jun'ichirō Mukai as |
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Kitijiro Murata as Toda Awaji |
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Ryunosuke Yamazaki as |
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Ryōsuke Kagawa as Nagasaka Yorihiro |
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Masao Shimizu as |
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Jotaro Togami as Murakami Yoshikiyo |
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Kōji Nanbara as |
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Takashi Shimura as Obu Toramasa |
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Ryūnosuke Tsukigata as Kasahara Kiyoshige |
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Kan'emon Nakamura as Nobukato Itagaki |
| Directing | Hiroshi Inagaki | Director |
| Camera | Kazuo Yamada | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Yasushi Inoue | Novel |
| Art | Hiroshi Ueda | Art Direction |
| Editing | Yoshihiro Araki | Editor |
| Writing | Shinobu Hashimoto | Screenplay |
| Writing | Takeo Kunihiro | Screenplay |
| Production | Hiroshi Inagaki | Producer |
| Production | Toshirō Mifune | Producer |
| Production | Tomoyuki Tanaka | Producer |
| Sound | Masaru Satō | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Shinobu Hashimoto | Adaptation |
| Writing | Takeo Kunihiro | Adaptation |
| Visual Effects | Saburo Doi | Visual Effects |
