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 as Kansuke Yamamoto
Yoshiko Sakuma as Princess Yufu
Kinnosuke Nakamura as Shingen Takeda
Yūjirō Ishihara as Kenshin Uesugi
Katsuo Nakamura as Nobusato Itagaki
Umenosuke Nakamura as Hagiwara Yaemon
Masakazu Tamura as Nobushige Takeda
Nakamura Kanzaburo as Takeda Katsuyori
Ken Ogata as Hatanaka Buhei
Mayumi Ozora as Princess Okoto
Masumi Harukawa as Buhei's wife
Haruko Tōgō as
Keiko Sawai as
Yoshiko Kuga as
Akihiko Hirata as Suwa Yorishige
Yoshio Tsuchiya as
Akira Kubo as
Ichirō Nakatani as
Sachio Sakai as
Nakajirō Tomita as Takada Noriyori
Tetsurō Sagawa as
Jun'ichirō Mukai as
Kitijiro Murata as Toda Awaji
Ryunosuke Yamazaki as
Ryōsuke Kagawa as Nagasaka Yorihiro
Masao Shimizu as
Jotaro Togami as Murakami Yoshikiyo
Kôji Nanbara as
Takashi Shimura as Obu Toramasa
Ryūnosuke Tsukigata as Kasahara Kiyoshige
Kan'emon Nakamura as Nobukato Itagaki
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