Samurai Saga

Samurai Saga

111 mins | Drama, Action | April 28, 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.

Samurai Saga

111 mins | Drama, Action | April 28, 1959

Samurai Saga
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.
IMDb rating 6.9
Producers Toho Company, Ltd.
Original title 或る剣豪の生涯
Directors Teruo Maru, Hiroshi Inagaki
Writers Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast

Toshirō Mifune

as Heihachiro Komaki

Yôko Tsukasa

as Lady Ochii / Princess Chiyo

Akira Takarada

as Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe

Keiko Awaji

as Nanae

Seizaburō Kawazu

as Nagashima

Kamatari Fujiwara

as Rakuzo the sake seller (uncredited)

Akihiko Hirata

as Akaboshi

Eiko Miyoshi

as Okuni

Sachio Sakai

as (uncredited)

Yoshifumi Tajima

as (uncredited)

Akira Tani

as (uncredited)

Yutaka Sada

as (uncredited)

Senkichi Ômura

as (uncredited)

Hideyo Amamoto

as (uncredited)

Haruo Tanaka

as (uncredited)

Kichijirô Ueda

as (uncredited)

Fumindo Matsuo

as (uncredited)

Chieko Nakakita

as (uncredited)

Akira Sera

as (uncredited)

Mitsuo Tsuda

as (uncredited)

Yasuhisa Tsutsumi

as (uncredited)

Setsuko Wakayama

as (uncredited)

Ren Yamamoto

as (uncredited)

Shin Ôtomo

as (uncredited)