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Kanemon Nakamura, Kankuro Nakamura, Katsuo Nakamura, Ken Ogata, Kinnosuke Nakamura ...( see more  see more... ) , Masakazu Tamura , Mayumi Ozora , Toshiro Mifune , Yoshiko Sakuma , Yûjirô Ishihara

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...( read more  read more... ) 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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Directed by: Hiroshi Inagaki

Release Date: June 24, 1969

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DVD Release Date: July 12, 2005

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  • sanjurosamurai
    April 22, 2008
    sanjurosamurai
    this samurai epic is one of the many examples of the greatness of samurai films and japanese film in general. inagaki does a bang up directing job and mifune puts in another of his countless stellar performances. the story is great, the camera work and locations used were top n...( read more)otch, and the film possesed a beauty to it that has to be seen to be understood. a legthy film that justifies its 2 hr and 45 minute length. great film.
  • MangoChutChut
    January 30, 2008
    MangoChutChut
    Feudal Japan. . .are there any comedies about this time period?
  • hugonar
    November 7, 2007
    hugonar
    Toshiro Mifune = Want to see it.

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