Samurai Banners

Samurai Banners (2024)

2024

Action / War / History

7.5 from 10 with total 16 votes

1969-03-01

165 minutes

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?

Toshirō Mifune character Kansuke Yamamoto

Yoshiko Sakuma character Princess Yufu

Kinnosuke Nakamura character Shingen Takeda

Yūjirō Ishihara character Kenshin Uesugi

Katsuo Nakamura character Nobusato Itagaki

Umenosuke Nakamura character Hagiwara Yaemon

Masakazu Tamura character Nobushige Takeda

Nakamura Kanzaburo character Takeda Katsuyori

Ken Ogata character Hatanaka Buhei

Mayumi Ozora character Princess Okoto

Masumi Harukawa character Buhei's wife

Akihiko Hirata character Suwa Yorishige

Nakajirō Tomita character Takada Noriyori

Kitijiro Murata character Toda Awaji

Ryōsuke Kagawa character Nagasaka Yorihiro

Jotaro Togami character Murakami Yoshikiyo

Takashi Shimura character Obu Toramasa

Ryūnosuke Tsukigata character Kasahara Kiyoshige

Kan'emon Nakamura character Nobukato Itagaki