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?
Credits
Samurai Banners Cast
Samurai Banners Crew
Name |
Department |
Tomoyuki Tanaka as Producer. He was 58 (86) years old when He died
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Production |
Masaru Sato as Original Music Composer. He was 40 (71) years old when He died
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Sound |
Hiroshi Inagaki as Director. He was 63 (74) years old when He died
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Directing |
Hiroshi Inagaki as Producer. He was 63 (74) years old when He died
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Production |
Shinobu Hashimoto as Screenplay. He was 50 (100) years old when He died
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Writing |
Toshiro Mifune as Producer. He was 48 (77) years old when He died
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Production |
Hiroshi Ueda as Art Direction. |
Art |
Kazuo Yamada as Director of Photography. He was 56 (78) years old when He died
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Camera |
Yasushi Inoue as Novel. He was 61 (83) years old when He died
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Writing |
Yoshihiro Araki as Editor. He was 4 (now 51) years old
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Editing |
Takeo Kunihiro as Screenplay. |
Writing |