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Samurai Banners is a japonais film of genre War directed by Hiroshi Inagaki with Toshiro Mifune

Samurai Banners (1969)

Samurai Banners
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Length 2h45
Directed by
OriginJapon
Genres War,    Action,    Adventure,    Historical
Rating70% 3.541963.541963.541963.541963.54196

Samurai Banners (風林火山, Fūrin Kazan) is a Japanese samurai drama film released in 1969. It was directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and is based on the life of the famous Sengoku-era battle strategist, Yamamoto Kansuke.

Synopsis

Yamamoto Kansuke (Toshiro Mifune) is a general of warlord Takeda Shingen (Yorozuya Kinnosuke), whose titular red banners are his trademark. Yamamoto has a ruthless but effective approach to battle and politics, and advises Takeda Shingen on almost everything he does, including the assassination of Suwa Yorishige (Akihiko Hirata). Of Lord Suwa's household, Princess Yu (Yoshiko Sakuma) refuses to commit suicide, and the film comes to center on a love triangle between the lord, his general, and the princess.

Actors

Toshiro Mifune

(Kansuke Yamamoto)Kinnosuke Nakamura

(Shingen Takeda)Akihiko Hirata

(Suwa Yorishige)Yujiro Ishihara

(Kenshin Uesugi)Katsuo Nakamura

(Nobusato Itagaki)
And :
Masakazu Tamura
Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII
Ken Ogata
Koji Nanbara
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