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?
Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
japan
jidaigeki
sengoku period
IMDB
N/A
Letterboxd
3.5 / 5
Cast
Toshirō Mifune
Kansuke Yamamoto
Yoshiko Sakuma
Princess Yufu
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Shingen Takeda
Yūjirō Ishihara
Kenshin Uesugi
Umenosuke Nakamura
Hagiwara Yaemon
Masakazu Tamura
Nobushige Takeda
Nakamura Kanzaburo
Takeda Katsuyori
Ken Ogata
Hatanaka Buhei
Mayumi Ozora
Princess Okoto
Masumi Harukawa
Buhei's wife
Haruko Tōgō
Keiko Sawai
Crew
Hiroshi Inagaki
Director
Shinobu Hashimoto
Screenplay
Masaru Satō
Original Music Composer
Hiroshi Inagaki
Producer
Toshirō Mifune
Producer
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Producer
Yasushi Inoue
Novel
Shinobu Hashimoto
Adaptation
Popular Reviews
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Kanekuri
7.0★ · 04/06/26
I’m honestly shocked that this hasn’t gotten a Criterion or Arrow treatment yet. It’s an epic in every sense of the word and has Mifune eating each scene he’s in. Fantastic set design and lots of drama. The opening is shot in black and white, acting as a call back to Jidaigeki of
I’m honestly shocked that this hasn’t gotten a Criterion or Arrow treatment yet. It’s an epic in every sense of the word and has Mifune eating each scene he’s in. Fantastic set design and lots of drama. The opening is shot in black and white, acting as a call back to Jidaigeki of
