The Battle of Kawanakajima (1941)
This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the main supply wagons and the supply troops to transport materiel to the Uesugi army. To this are added episodes involving an itinerant woman.
Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa
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Ennosuke Ichikawa as Kenshin Uesugi / Sonkurô Kaiga |
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Denjirō Ōkōchi as Shingen Takeda |
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Kazuo Hasegawa as Hyakuzô |
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Takako Irie as Chiyono - widow |
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Isuzu Yamada as Oshino |
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Yataro Kurokawa as Izumokami Anayama |
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Musei Tokugawa as Ichibei |
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Sadao Maruyama as Tamenobu Terasaki |
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Unpei Yokoyama as Nikichi |
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Sōji Kiyokawa as Hambei |
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Yōnosuke Toba as Kurôsuke |
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Kokuten Kōdō as Hiryûji Murakami |
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Eitarō Shindō as Samanosuke Karasaki |
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Ryutaro Nagai as Takeemon |
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Zenichiro Kito as Sôtarô Komatsubara |
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Michisaburō Segawa as Jûbei Arakura |
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Jun Maki as Genban Naramoto |
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Taizō Fukami as Gorô Imasato |
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Kenichiro Ubukata as Hyûganokami Kashiwazaki |
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Yōyō Kojima as Tangonokami Shizawa |
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Ichiro Tetsu as Yataro |
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Fumio Okura as Koshirô Nomiya |
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Shônosuke Sawamura as Gorômaru Kaga |
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Saburō Sawai as Sannojô Kobata |
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Kan Yanagiya as Sakuzô |
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Ryo Sayama as Jûnoshin Kobori |
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Rei Ishikawa as Kansuke |
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Benko Nakagawa as Gohei |
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Kunio Mita as Daizaburô Urano |
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Rokurô Katagiri as Suekichi Tamao |
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Yōji Misaki as Shôzô Itô |
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Eizaburô Sakauchi as Akiyoshi Chisaka |
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Isamu Eto as Sanzô Ôhori |
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Shin Terashima as Kujûrô Terao |
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Ryosuke Matsui as Shirô Shinoi |
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Heikuro Imanari as Keizô Ogata |
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Fumimaro Takamatsu as Shingo Mochizuki |
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Fukumatsu Nakamura as Samon Ujie |
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Kyōzō Fuyuki as Masato Narishima |
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Shinkuro Masamune as Gorô Ishiyama |
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Kenzō Tanaka as Kin'nosuke Sawada |
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Hikaru Taniyama as Junta Seki |
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Eijirô Kawai as Kôzô Ôsugi |
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Ryūnosuke Tsukigata as Koheita |
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Reizaburo Yamamoto as |
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Tatsuya Ishiguro as Hachiemon Shibasawa |
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Yôjiro Matsumoto as |
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Taiji Tonoyama as Rokuzô Ôkuma |
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Ensaburô Ichikawa as Uemon Akimoto |
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Enjûro Ichikawa as Koshirô Noyake |
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Kumeko Otowa as Omaki |
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Toshiko Itō as A woman who lost her child |
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Atsuko Ichinomiya as Otsuki |
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Yumiko Togawa as Oyoshi |
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Sachiko Mitani as Onobu |
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Yoshio Kosugi as Kansuke Yamamoto |
| Writing | Teinosuke Kinugasa | Writer |
| Directing | Teinosuke Kinugasa | Director |
| Editing | Kôichi Iwashita | Editor |
| Production | Kiyoshi Kusuda | Production Manager |
| Production | Hajime Mori | Production Manager |
| Sound | Shigeharu Yasue | Sound Director |
| Production | Minesuke Kiyokawa | Producer |
| Writing | Hiroshi Muneta | Writer |
| Production | Nobuyoshi Morita | Producer |
| Art | Takashi Matsuyama | Art Direction |
| Camera | Mitsuo Miura | Director of Photography |
| Lighting | Ko Fujibayashi | Lighting Technician |
