The read
It runs long at 2h 50m.
Synopsis
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?
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
28 audience votes
Key crew
- Hiroshi InagakiDirector
- Shinobu HashimotoScreenplay
- Takeo KunihiroScreenplay
- Masaru SatōOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Toshirō MifuneKansuke Yamamoto
- Yoshiko SakumaPrincess Yufu
- Kinnosuke NakamuraShingen Takeda
- Yūjirō IshiharaKenshin Uesugi
- Katsuo NakamuraNobusato Itagaki
- Umenosuke NakamuraHagiwara Yaemon
- Masakazu TamuraNobushige Takeda
- Nakamura KanzaburoTakeda Katsuyori
- Ken OgataHatanaka Buhei
- Mayumi OzoraPrincess Okoto
- Masumi HarukawaBuhei's wife
- Haruko TōgōCast
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Themes
japanjidaigekisengoku period
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