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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?

Top Cast

  • Toshirō Mifune

    Toshirō Mifune

    Kansuke Yamamoto

  • Yoshiko Sakuma

    Yoshiko Sakuma

    Princess Yufu

  • Kinnosuke Nakamura

    Kinnosuke Nakamura

    Shingen Takeda

  • Yūjirō Ishihara

    Yūjirō Ishihara

    Kenshin Uesugi

  • Katsuo Nakamura

    Katsuo Nakamura

    Nobusato Itagaki

  • Umenosuke Nakamura

    Umenosuke Nakamura

    Hagiwara Yaemon

  • Masakazu Tamura

    Masakazu Tamura

    Nobushige Takeda

  • Nakamura Kanzaburo

    Nakamura Kanzaburo

    Takeda Katsuyori

  • Ken Ogata

    Ken Ogata

    Hatanaka Buhei

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?

Rating

7.4 / 10
28 Reviews
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