Samurai Banners (1969)

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Country: Japan
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Release: 1969-06-24
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Writers: Shinobu Hashimoto , Yasushi Inoue , Takeo Kunihiro
Language: Japanese
Stars: Toshirō Mifune , Yoshiko Sakuma , Kinnosuke Nakamura , Yûjirô Ishihara , Katsuo Nakamura , Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII , Kan’emon Nakamura , Masakazu Tamura , Mayumi Ôzora , Ken Ogata
Runtime: 165 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Sous la bannière du samouraï (France, French Republic) , Wind-Fire-Forest-Mountain , Samurai Banners (United States of America) , Знамената на самураите (Bulgaria) , Das Banner des Samurai , Samurajskie chorągwie (Poland) , Szamurájháború (Hungary) , Zastave samuraja , Samurai Banners (Canada) , Under the Banner of Samurai (United States of America) , Samurai Banners , 風林火山 (Japan) , Fûrin kazan , Los estandartes del samurái (Argentina) , Samurai Banners (Australia) , Samurai Banners (New Zealand) , Знамена самураев
Plot: 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?
IMDB:tt0064353