Samurai Banners

Samurai Banners by Hiroshi Inagaki

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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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Cast

Toshirō Mifune

Toshirō Mifune as Kansuke Yamamoto

Yoshiko Sakuma

Yoshiko Sakuma as Princess Yufu

Kinnosuke Nakamura

Kinnosuke Nakamura as Shingen Takeda

Yūjirō Ishihara

Yūjirō Ishihara as Kenshin Uesugi

Katsuo Nakamura

Katsuo Nakamura as Nobusato Itagaki

Umenosuke Nakamura

Umenosuke Nakamura as Hagiwara Yaemon

Masakazu Tamura

Masakazu Tamura as Nobushige Takeda

Nakamura Kanzaburo

Nakamura Kanzaburo as Takeda Katsuyori

Ken Ogata

Ken Ogata as Hatanaka Buhei

Mayumi Ozora

Mayumi Ozora as Princess Okoto

Masumi Harukawa

Masumi Harukawa as Buhei's wife

Haruko Tōgō

Haruko Tōgō as

Keiko Sawai

Keiko Sawai as

Yoshiko Kuga

Yoshiko Kuga as

Akihiko Hirata

Akihiko Hirata as Suwa Yorishige

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Yoshio Tsuchiya as

Akira Kubo

Akira Kubo as

Ichirō Nakatani

Ichirō Nakatani as

Sachio Sakai

Sachio Sakai as

Nakajirō Tomita

Nakajirō Tomita as Takada Noriyori

Tetsurō Sagawa

Tetsurō Sagawa as

Jun'ichirō Mukai

Jun'ichirō Mukai as

Kitijiro Murata

Kitijiro Murata as Toda Awaji

Ryunosuke Yamazaki

Ryunosuke Yamazaki as

Ryōsuke Kagawa

Ryōsuke Kagawa as Nagasaka Yorihiro

Masao Shimizu

Masao Shimizu as

Jotaro Togami

Jotaro Togami as Murakami Yoshikiyo

Kôji Nanbara

Kôji Nanbara as

Takashi Shimura

Takashi Shimura as Obu Toramasa

Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

Ryūnosuke Tsukigata as Kasahara Kiyoshige

Kan'emon Nakamura

Kan'emon Nakamura as Nobukato Itagaki

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