Samurai Banners
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?
About Samurai Banners (1969)
Released in 1969, Samurai Banners is a action, war and history film from TOHO (Japan). It was directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and written by Shinobu Hashimoto and Takeo Kunihiro. The cast is led by Toshirō Mifune, Yoshiko Sakuma, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Yūjirō Ishihara and Katsuo Nakamura. With a runtime of 2h 50m, the film averages 7.4/10 across 28 TMDB ratings.
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