Samurai Banners
風林火山
Release: 1969-03-01
·Runtime: 170m
·★ 7.4
Action
War
History
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?
Production Countries
Japan
Production Companies
TOHO
Mifune Productions
Cast
Masao Shimizu
Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
as Kasahara Kiyoshige
Yoshiko Kuga
Akihiko Hirata
as Suwa Yorishige
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Kan'emon Nakamura
as Nobukato Itagaki
Ken Ogata
as Hatanaka Buhei
Sachio Sakai
Ryōsuke Kagawa
as Nagasaka Yorihiro
Haruko Tōgō
Yoshiko Sakuma
as Princess Yufu
Katsuo Nakamura
as Nobusato Itagaki
Umenosuke Nakamura
as Hagiwara Yaemon
Masakazu Tamura
as Nobushige Takeda
Nakamura Kanzaburo
as Takeda Katsuyori
Mayumi Ozora
as Princess Okoto
Ichirō Nakatani
Toshirō Mifune
as Kansuke Yamamoto
Tetsurō Sagawa
Yūjirō Ishihara
as Kenshin Uesugi
Masumi Harukawa
as Buhei's wife
Jotaro Togami
as Murakami Yoshikiyo
Nakajirō Tomita
as Takada Noriyori
Kōji Nanbara
Keiko Sawai
Takashi Shimura
as Obu Toramasa
Kinnosuke Nakamura
as Shingen Takeda
Akira Kubo
