Samurai Saga

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.

Toshirō Mifune

Heihachiro Komaki

Yōko Tsukasa

Lady Ochii / Princess Chiyo

Akira Takarada

Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe

Keiko Awaji

Nanae

Seizaburō Kawazu

Nagashima

Kamatari Fujiwara

Rakuzo the sake seller (uncredited)

Akihiko Hirata

Akaboshi

Eiko Miyoshi

Okuni

Sachio Sakai

(uncredited)

Yoshifumi Tajima

(uncredited)

Akira Tani

(uncredited)

Yutaka Sada

(uncredited)

Senkichi Ômura

(uncredited)

Hideyo Amamoto

(uncredited)

Haruo Tanaka

(uncredited)

Kichijirō Ueda

(uncredited)

Fumindo Matsuo

(uncredited)

Chieko Nakakita

(uncredited)