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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?Read moreLess
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?
The story
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?
Cast & crew
Toshirō MifuneKansuke Yamamoto
Yoshiko SakumaPrincess Yufu
Kinnosuke NakamuraShingen Takeda
Yūjirō IshiharaKenshin Uesugi
Umenosuke NakamuraHagiwara Yaemon
Masakazu TamuraNobushige Takeda
Nakamura KanzaburoTakeda Katsuyori
Ken OgataHatanaka Buhei
Mayumi OzoraPrincess Okoto
Masumi HarukawaBuhei's wife
Haruko TōgōCastExplore the crew
- Director
- Hiroshi Inagaki
- Director of Photography
- Kazuo Yamada
- Editor
- Yoshihiro Araki
- Producer
- Toshirō Mifune
- Screenplay
- Takeo Kunihiro
- Producer
- Hiroshi Inagaki
- Screenplay
- Shinobu Hashimoto
- Producer
- Tomoyuki Tanaka
- Original Music Composer
- Masaru Satō