Samurai Banners

Synopsis

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?

Main Cast

Toshirō Mifune

Kansuke Yamamoto

Age : 77 | Popularity : 18%

Yoshiko Sakuma

Princess Yufu

Age : 85 | Popularity : 7%

Kinnosuke Nakamura

Shingen Takeda

Age : 64 | Popularity : 7%

Yûjirô Ishihara

Kenshin Uesugi

Age : 52 | Popularity : 6%

Katsuo Nakamura

Nobusato Itagaki

Age : 86 | Popularity : 4%

Umenosuke Nakamura

Hagiwara Yaemon

Age : 85 | Popularity : 3%

Masakazu Tamura

Nobushige Takeda

Age : 80 | Popularity : 3%

Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII

Takeda Katsuyori

Age : 57 | Popularity : 4%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Screenplay	Shinobu Hashimoto Takeo Kunihiro
	Novel	Yasushi Inoue
Production	Producer	Toshirō Mifune Tomoyuki Tanaka Hiroshi Inagaki
Sound	Original Music Composer	Masaru Satō
Camera	Director of Photography	Kazuo Yamada
Directing	Director	Hiroshi Inagaki
Editing	Editor	Yoshihiro Araki
Art	Art Direction	Hiroshi Ueda
Department	Role	Name

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