Watch Samurai Banners (1969) Online
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- RUNTIME: 2h 45m
- COUNTRIES: Japan
- Subtitles: 日本語
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? Read More
Watch Samurai Banners online. Featuring Toshirō Mifune and Yoshiko Sakuma, Samurai Banners is classified as Action and War genre movie with an average rating across the web of 7.6. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in Japan and was released on 1969. Samurai Banners was directed by Hiroshi Inagaki. Read Less