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?
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Toshirō Mifune
Kansuke Yamamoto
Known for
Seven Samurai
Rashomon
Yoshiko Sakuma
Princess Yufu
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Earthquake Bird
The Makioka Sisters
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Shingen Takeda
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Goyokin
Yūjirō Ishihara
Kenshin Uesugi
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Crazed Fruit
Katsuo Nakamura
Nobusato Itagaki
Known for
Demons
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Umenosuke Nakamura
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Also in
Ten Nights of Dreams
Denshichi Torimonocho
Masakazu Tamura
Nobushige Takeda
Known for
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Takeda Katsuyori
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Ken Ogata
Hatanaka Buhei
Known for
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
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Mayumi Ozora
Princess Okoto
Also in
Yasuragi no Toki: Michi
Illusion of Blood
Masumi Harukawa
Buhei's wife
Known for
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Hachiko
Haruko Tōgō
Known for
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I Live in Fear
Hiroshi Inagaki Director · Shinobu Hashimoto Screenplay Takeo Kunihiro Screenplay
First release March 1, 1969 · Produced in Japan · Production Mifune Productions, Mifune Production Co., Ltd.
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TOHO
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Mifune Productions
Production
Mifune Production Co., Ltd.
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Japan
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Original title
風林火山
Original language
Japanese
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Japanese
Release dates
Japan · March 1, 1969
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No release date listed for United States.
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