Samurai Saga

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.

• Hiroshi InagakiDirector
• Hiroshi InagakiWriter
• Akira IfukubeOriginal Music Composer

• Toshirō MifuneHeihachiro Komaki
• Yōko TsukasaLady Ochii / Princess Chiyo
• Akira TakaradaJutaro [Jurota] Karibe
• Keiko AwajiNanae
• Seizaburō KawazuNagashima
• Kamatari FujiwaraRakuzo the sake seller (uncredited)
• Akihiko HirataAkaboshi
• Eiko MiyoshiOkuni
• Sachio Sakai(uncredited)
• Yoshibumi Tajima(uncredited)
• Akira Tani(uncredited)
• Yutaka Sada(uncredited)