- Country: Japan
- Genres: Action, Drama
- Release: 1973-04-18
- Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
- Writers: Hiroshi Inagaki , Edmond Rostand
- Language: Japanese
- Stars: Toshirō Mifune , Yôko Tsukasa , Yôko Tsukasa , Akira Takarada , Keiko Awaji , Seizaburō Kawazu , Kamatari Fujiwara , Akihiko Hirata , Eiko Miyoshi , Sachio Sakai , Yoshifumi Tajima
- Runtime: 111 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Aru kengo no shogai , Samurai Saga (Australia) , Samurai Saga (New Zealand) , Życie pewnego szermierza (Poland) , Life of an Expert Swordsman , O Conto do Samurai (Brazil) , Saga unui samurai (Romania) , Samurai Saga , Yamato il grande samurai (Italy) , Samurai Saga (Canada) , 或る剣豪の生涯 (Japan) , Samurai Saga (United States of America) , Samurai Saga (South Africa) , Samurai Saga (O Conto do Samurai) (Brazil)
- Plot: 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.
- IMDB:tt0052579
Samurai Saga Cast · · · ALL
Hiroshi Inagaki
Director
Toshirō Mifune
Heihachiro Komaki
Yôko Tsukasa
Lady Ochii / Princess Chiyo
Akira Takarada
Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe
Keiko Awaji
Nanae
Seizaburō Kawazu
Nagashima
Kamatari Fujiwara
Rakuzo the sake seller (uncredited)
Akihiko Hirata
Akaboshi
Eiko Miyoshi
Okuni
Sachio Sakai
(uncredited)
Yoshifumi Tajima
(uncredited)
Akira Tani
(uncredited)
Yutaka Sada
(uncredited)
Senkichi Ômura
(uncredited)
Hideyo Amamoto
(uncredited)
Haruo Tanaka
(uncredited)
Kichijirô Ueda
(uncredited)
Fumindo Matsuo
(uncredited)
Chieko Nakakita
(uncredited)
Akira Sera
(uncredited)
Mitsuo Tsuda
(uncredited)
Yasuhisa Tsutsumi
(uncredited)
Setsuko Wakayama
(uncredited)
Ren Yamamoto
(uncredited)
Shin Ôtomo
(uncredited)