Samurai Banners

Samurai Banners

165 mins | Action, War, History | March 1, 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?

Samurai Banners

165 mins | Action, War, History | March 1, 1969

Samurai Banners
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?
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers Toho Company, Ltd., Mifune Production Co., Ltd.
Original title 風林火山
Directors Hiroshi Inagaki
Writers Takeo Kunihiro, Yasushi Inoue, Shinobu Hashimoto

Cast

Toshirō Mifune

as Kansuke Yamamoto

Yoshiko Sakuma

as Princess Yufu

Kinnosuke Nakamura

as Shingen Takeda

Yûjirô Ishihara

as Kenshin Uesugi

Katsuo Nakamura

as Nobusato Itagaki

Umenosuke Nakamura

as Hagiwara Yaemon

Masakazu Tamura

as Nobushige Takeda

Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII

as Takeda Katsuyori

Ken Ogata

as Hatanaka Buhei

Mayumi Ôzora

as Princess Okoto

Masumi Harukawa

as Buhei's wife

Akihiko Hirata

as Suwa Yorishige

Nakajirô Tomita

as Takada Noriyori

Kitijiro Murata

as Toda Awaji

Ryōsuke Kagawa

as Nagasaka Yorihiro

Jotaro Togami

as Murakami Yoshikiyo

Takashi Shimura

as Obu Toramasa

Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

as Kasahara Kiyoshige

Kan'emon Nakamura

as Nobukato Itagaki