Samurai Banners

Samurai Banners

Fûrin kazan
🎞️ Movie 165 min JP
โ˜… 7.0 /10 1969

Feudal Japan, 1543 to 1562. 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?

Cast

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
Katsuo Nakamura
Nobusato Itagaki
Kanzaburô Nakamura
Kanzaburô Nakamura
Katsuyori Takeda
Kan'emon Nakamura
Kan'emon Nakamura
Nobukato Itagaki
Masakazu Tamura
Masakazu Tamura
Nobushige Takeda
Mayumi Ôzora
Mayumi Ôzora
Princess Okoto
Ken Ogata
Ken Ogata
๐Ÿ‘ค
Masaru Satō
Composer
๐Ÿ‘ค
Kazuo Yamada
Cinematographer