Overview
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?
Movie Info
Release Date: 3/1/1969
Runtime: 170 min
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Writers: Yasushi Inoue, Shinobu Hashimoto, Shinobu Hashimoto
Top Cast
Toshirō Mifune
Kansuke Yamamoto
Yoshiko Sakuma
Princess Yufu
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Shingen Takeda
Yūjirō Ishihara
Kenshin Uesugi
Katsuo Nakamura
Nobusato Itagaki
Umenosuke Nakamura
Hagiwara Yaemon
Masakazu Tamura
Nobushige Takeda
Nakamura Kanzaburo
Takeda Katsuyori
Ken Ogata
Hatanaka Buhei
Mayumi Ozora
Princess Okoto
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