Samurai Banners
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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?
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Edited by Yoshihiro ArakiShot by Kazuo YamadaScored by Masaru SatoDesigned by Hiroshi Ueda
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20 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Toshiro Mifune
as Kansuke Yamamoto
Yoshiko Sakuma
as Princess Yufu
Kinnosuke Nakamura
as Shingen Takeda
Yujiro Ishihara
as Kenshin Uesugi
Katsuo Nakamura
as Nobusato Itagaki
Kanzaburo Nakamura
as Katsuyori Takeda
Kan Emon Nakamura
as Nobukato Itagaki
Masakazu Tamura
as Nobushige Takeda
Mayumi Ozora
as Princess Okoto
Ken Ogata
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