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?

Toshirō Mifune

Kansuke Yamamoto

Yoshiko Sakuma

Princess Yufu

Kinnosuke Nakamura

Shingen Takeda

Yūjirō Ishihara

Kenshin Uesugi

Katsuo Nakamura

Nobusato Itagaki

Kan'emon Nakamura

Nobukato Itagaki

Umenosuke Nakamura

Hagiwara Yaemon

Masakazu Tamura

Nobushige Takeda

Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII

Takeda Katsuyori

Mayumi Ozora

Princess Okoto

Ken Ogata

Hatanaka Buhei

Masumi Harukawa

Buhei's wife

Kôji Nanbara

Haruko Tōgō

Keiko Sawai

Yoshiko Kuga

Akihiko Hirata

Suwa Yorishige

Yoshio Tsuchiya