A shrewd 16th Century samurai helps a daimyo expand his realm.
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Title: Samurai Banners (1969)
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| Toshirô Mifune | ... | Kansuke Yamamoto | |
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Yoshiko Sakuma | ... | Princess Yufu |
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Kinnosuke Nakamura | ... | Shingen Takeda |
| Yûjirô Ishihara | ... | Kenshin Uesugi | |
| Katsuo Nakamura | ... | Nobusato Itagaki | |
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Kanzaburô Nakamura | ... | Katsuyori Takeda (as Kankurô Nakamura) |
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Kan'emon Nakamura | ... | Nobukato Itagaki |
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Masakazu Tamura | ... | Nobushige Takeda |
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Mayumi Ôzora | ... | Princess Okoto |
| Ken Ogata | |||
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Takashi Shimura | |||
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Feudal Japan, 1543 to 1562. 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? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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24 June 1969 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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One of the best samurai epics. "Furinkazan" tells the story of the 16th century warlord Takeda Shingen and his loyal general Yamamoto Kansuke (Mifune Toshiro) embedded in the story of the Takeda clan's rise to power. Outstanding sets, costumes and Sato Masaru's rich soundtrack make the drama highly enjoyable.