Samurai Banners DVD

Release Year: 1969

Runtime: 170 min

Director: Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast: Toshirō Mifune, Yoshiko Sakuma, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Yūjirō Ishihara, Katsuo Nakamura

Studios: TOHO, Mifune Productions

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?

Special Features:

Original Theatrical Trailers

Original Theatrical Trailers

Image Gallery

Image Gallery

Character Biographies

Character Biographies

Interactive Program Notes

Interactive Program Notes

Technical Specifications:

• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Presented in Anamorphic Widescreen