06 Sep 2003
Zatoichi
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.
Samurai Banners
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 Billed Cast
三船敏郎 Kansuke Yamamoto
佐久間良子 Princess Yufu
萬屋錦之介 Shingen Takeda
石原裕次郎 Kenshin Uesugi
中村嘉葎雄 Nobusato Itagaki
四代目 中村梅之助 Hagiwara Yaemon
田村正和 Nobushige Takeda
十八代目中村勘三郎 Takeda Katsuyori
緒形拳 Hatanaka Buhei
大空眞弓 Princess Okoto
春川ますみ Buhei's wife
東郷晴子 
沢井桂子 
久我美子 
平田昭彦 Suwa Yorishige
土屋嘉男 
久保明 
中谷一郎 
堺左千夫 
富田仲次郎 Takada Noriyori
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