Samurai Banners | 風林火山
Samurai Banners風林火山
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?
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
Akihiko Hirata
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Akira Kubo
Ichirō Nakatani
Sachio Sakai
Nakajirō Tomita
Tetsurō Sagawa
Jun'ichirō Mukai
Kitijiro Murata
Ryunosuke Yamazaki
Ryōsuke Kagawa
Masao Shimizu
Jotaro Togami
Kôji Nanbara
Takashi Shimura
Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
Kan'emon Nakamura
Crew
Hiroshi Inagaki
Hiroshi Ueda
Kazuo Yamada
Yasushi Inoue
Yoshihiro Araki
Masaru Satō
Takeo Kunihiro
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Shinobu Hashimoto
Hiroshi Inagaki