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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?

Directed byHiroshi Inagaki

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Status
Released
Runtime
2h 50m
Language
JA
Released
March 1, 1969
Studios
TOHOMifune Productions

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
Toshirō Mifune

Toshirō Mifune

Kansuke Yamamoto

Yoshiko Sakuma

Yoshiko Sakuma

Princess Yufu

Kinnosuke Nakamura

Kinnosuke Nakamura

Shingen Takeda

Yūjirō Ishihara

Yūjirō Ishihara

Kenshin Uesugi

Katsuo Nakamura

Nobusato Itagaki

Umenosuke Nakamura

Umenosuke Nakamura

Hagiwara Yaemon

Masakazu Tamura

Masakazu Tamura

Nobushige Takeda

Nakamura Kanzaburo

Nakamura Kanzaburo

Takeda Katsuyori

Ken Ogata

Ken Ogata

Hatanaka Buhei

Mayumi Ozora

Mayumi Ozora

Princess Okoto

Creative team
Directed by
Hiroshi Inagaki
Hiroshi Inagaki
Written by
Takeo Kunihiro
Shinobu Hashimoto
Shinobu Hashimoto
Produced by
Toshirō Mifune
Toshirō Mifune
Hiroshi Inagaki
Hiroshi Inagaki

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