Samurai Banners
22 votes
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?
Status: Released
Released Date: 1969-03-01
Runtime: 170 mins
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Spoken language: 日本語
Genres: Action, War, History
Original title: Samurai Banners
Production Companies: TOHO, Mifune Productions
Production Countries: Japan
Cast
Toshirō Mifune
Yoshiko Sakuma
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Yūjirō Ishihara
Katsuo Nakamura
Umenosuke Nakamura
Masakazu Tamura
Nakamura Kanzaburo
Ken Ogata
Mayumi Ozora
Masumi Harukawa
Haruko Tōgō
Keiko Sawai
Yoshiko Kuga
Recommendations
John Rabe
2009-04-02
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing
Hiroshima
1953-10-07
Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945,
Sonatine
1993-05-03
Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a
Highlander III: The Sorcerer
1994-11-29
Starts off in the 15th century, with Connor McLeod training with another immortal swordsman, the Jap
King Kong vs. Godzilla
1962-08-11
The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponso
Mothra vs. Godzilla
1964-04-29
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and
To End All Wars
2001-09-02
Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are
Attack! The Battle for New Britain
1944-06-20
Actual footage by the United States Signal Corps of the landing and attack on Arawe Beach, Cape Glou
Bull's Eye of Love
1958-01-15
Young Lord Genjiro, who abandoned his castle to live as a commoner in Edo, returns home to restore p
Last Days of Edo
1941-11-28
It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in
Sea Raiding Unit
1939-11-30
Sekigahara
2017-08-26
The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh
Inu-Oh
2022-05-28
A cursed dancer and a blind musician — both ostracized by society — become business partners and ins
Oshidori kenkagasa
1957-05-22
Versus
2000-10-23
A group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, in The Forest of Re
Ask This of Rikyu
2013-09-01
Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve
Samurai Detective Onihei: One Last Wish
2025-02-08
Master thief Kinosuke arrives in Edo to pull off one final heist for a tea-server who resembles his
Cliff Walkers
2021-04-30
In the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, four Communist party special agents, after returning
A Color Print of Edo
1939-05-10
The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment dire
Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Gaim & Wizard: The Fateful Feudal Movie Wars
2013-12-14
The story is divided in three portions. The Kamen Rider Wizard portion, Kamen Rider Wizard: The Prom