Samurai Banners [49363] Released: 1969-03-01 Revenue: $0 Budget: $0 Profit: $0 Runtime: 165 mins Popularity: 1.3383 Vote Average: 7.5 Vote Count: 19 Overview: 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 [31] Toshirō MifuneKansuke Yamamoto Yoshiko SakumaPrincess Yufu Kinnosuke NakamuraShingen Takeda Yūjirō IshiharaKenshin Uesugi Katsuo NakamuraNobusato Itagaki Umenosuke NakamuraHagiwara Yaemon Masakazu TamuraNobushige Takeda Nakamura KanzaburoTakeda Katsuyori Ken OgataHatanaka Buhei Mayumi OzoraPrincess Okoto Masumi HarukawaBuhei's wife Haruko Tōgō Keiko Sawai Yoshiko Kuga Akihiko HirataSuwa Yorishige Yoshio Tsuchiya Akira Kubo Ichirō Nakatani Sachio Sakai Nakajirō TomitaTakada Noriyori Tetsurō Sagawa Jun'ichirō Mukai Kitijiro MurataToda Awaji Ryunosuke Yamazaki Ryōsuke KagawaNagasaka Yorihir Masao Shimizu Jotaro TogamiMurakami Yoshiki Kōji Nanbara Takashi ShimuraObu Toramasa Ryūnosuke TsukigataKasahara Kiyoshi Kan'emon NakamuraNobukato Itagaki Trailers