Samurai Banners
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
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Toshirō Mifune
Played Kansuke Yamamoto
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Yoshiko Sakuma
Played Princess Yufu
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Kinnosuke Nakamura
Played Shingen Takeda
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Yūjirō Ishihara
Played Kenshin Uesugi
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Katsuo Nakamura
Played Nobusato Itagaki
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Umenosuke Nakamura
Played Hagiwara Yaemon
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Masakazu Tamura
Played Nobushige Takeda
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Nakamura Kanzaburo
Played Takeda Katsuyori
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Ken Ogata
Played Hatanaka Buhei
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Mayumi Ozora
Played Princess Okoto
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Masumi Harukawa
Played Buhei's wife
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Haruko Tōgō
Played
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Keiko Sawai
Played
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Yoshiko Kuga
Played
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Akihiko Hirata
Played Suwa Yorishige
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Yoshio Tsuchiya
Played
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Akira Kubo
Played
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Ichirō Nakatani
Played
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Sachio Sakai
Played
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Nakajirō Tomita
Played Takada Noriyori
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Tetsurō Sagawa
Played
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Jun'ichirō Mukai
Played
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Kitijiro Murata
Played Toda Awaji
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Ryunosuke Yamazaki
Played
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Ryōsuke Kagawa
Played Nagasaka Yorihiro
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Masao Shimizu
Played
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Jotaro Togami
Played Murakami Yoshikiyo
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Kōji Nanbara
Played
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Takashi Shimura
Played Obu Toramasa
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Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
Played Kasahara Kiyoshige
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Kan'emon Nakamura
Played Nobukato Itagaki
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