

Samurai Banners(1969)
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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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Toshirō Mifune
Kansuke Yamamoto

Yoshiko Sakuma
Princess Yufu

Kinnosuke Nakamura
Shingen Takeda

Yūjirō Ishihara
Kenshin Uesugi

Katsuo Nakamura
Nobusato Itagaki

Umenosuke Nakamura
Hagiwara Yaemon

Masakazu Tamura
Nobushige Takeda

Nakamura Kanzaburo
Takeda Katsuyori

Ken Ogata
Hatanaka Buhei

Mayumi Ozora
Princess Okoto

Masumi Harukawa
Buhei's wife

Haruko Tōgō

Keiko Sawai

Yoshiko Kuga

Akihiko Hirata
Suwa Yorishige

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Akira Kubo

Ichirō Nakatani

Sachio Sakai

Nakajirō Tomita
Takada Noriyori

Tetsurō Sagawa
Jun'ichirō Mukai
Kitijiro Murata
Toda Awaji
Ryunosuke Yamazaki

Ryōsuke Kagawa
Nagasaka Yorihiro

Masao Shimizu

Jotaro Togami
Murakami Yoshikiyo

Kōji Nanbara

Takashi Shimura
Obu Toramasa

Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
Kasahara Kiyoshige

Kan'emon Nakamura
Nobukato Itagaki
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