Samurai Banners (風林火山) 55 years old

Samurai Banners

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

Name Character
Kinnosuke Nakamura He was 36, 64 years old when he died as Shingen Takeda
Takashi Shimura He was 63, 76 years old when he died
Kōji Nanbara He was 41, 74 years old when he died
Katsuo Nakamura He was 30, now 86 years old as Nobusato Itagaki
Ken Ogata He was 31, 71 years old when he died
Kan'emon Nakamura as Nobukato Itagaki
Toshiro Mifune He was 48, 77 years old when he died as Kansuke Yamamoto
Yoshiko Sakuma She was 30, now 85 years old as Princess Yufu
Yujiro Ishihara He was 34, 52 years old when he died as Kenshin Uesugi
Masakazu Tamura He was 25, now 81 years old as Nobushige Takeda

Samurai Banners Crew

Name Department
Tomoyuki Tanaka as Producer. He was 58 (86) years old when He died Production
Masaru Sato as Original Music Composer. He was 40 (71) years old when He died Sound
Hiroshi Inagaki as Director. He was 63 (74) years old when He died Directing
Hiroshi Inagaki as Producer. He was 63 (74) years old when He died Production
Shinobu Hashimoto as Screenplay. He was 50 (100) years old when He died Writing
Toshiro Mifune as Producer. He was 48 (77) years old when He died Production
Hiroshi Ueda as Art Direction. Art
Kazuo Yamada as Director of Photography. He was 56 (78) years old when He died Camera
Yasushi Inoue as Novel. He was 61 (83) years old when He died Writing
Yoshihiro Araki as Editor. He was 4 (now 51) years old Editing
Takeo Kunihiro as Screenplay. Writing
Samurai Banners poster
Samurai Banners (55 years)

  • Release day: Saturday, March 01, 1969
  • Runtime: 165 minutes