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
Toshirō Mifune
Kansuke Yamamoto
Yoshiko Sakuma
Princess Yufu
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Shingen Takeda
Yūjirō Ishihara
Kenshin Uesugi
Katsuo Nakamura
Nobusato Itagaki
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
Unknown
Keiko Sawai
Unknown
Yoshiko Kuga
Unknown
Akihiko Hirata
Suwa Yorishige
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Unknown
Akira Kubo
Unknown
Ichirō Nakatani
Unknown
Sachio Sakai
Unknown
Nakajirō Tomita
Takada Noriyori
Tetsurō Sagawa
Unknown
Jun'ichirō Mukai
Unknown
Kitijiro Murata
Toda Awaji
Ryunosuke Yamazaki
Unknown
Ryōsuke Kagawa
Nagasaka Yorihiro
Masao Shimizu
Unknown
Jotaro Togami
Murakami Yoshikiyo
Kōji Nanbara
Unknown
Takashi Shimura
Obu Toramasa
Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
Kasahara Kiyoshige
Kan'emon Nakamura
Nobukato Itagaki
Crew
Hiroshi Inagaki
Director, Producer
Shinobu Hashimoto
Adaptation, Screenplay
Takeo Kunihiro
Adaptation, Screenplay
Yasushi Inoue
Novel
Yoshihiro Araki
Editor
Kazuo Yamada
Director of Photography
Toshirō Mifune
Producer
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Producer
Saburo Doi
Visual Effects
Masaru Satō
Original Music Composer
Hiroshi Ueda
Art Direction
