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is a Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese samurai drama
Samurai cinema

While earlier samurai period pieces were more dramatic rather than action-based, samurai movies post World War II have become more action-based, with darker and more violent characters....
 film released in 1969. It was directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
Hiroshi Inagaki

Hiroshi Inagaki was a Japanese filmmaker most known for the Academy Awards-winning Samurai Trilogy, which he directed. Before becoming a director and screenwriter, Inagaki was a child actor....
 and is based on the life of the famous Sengoku-era battle strategist, Yamamoto Kansuke
Yamamoto Kansuke

was a Japanese samurai of the 16th century who was one of Takeda Shingen's most trusted Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen. Also known by his formal name, 'Haruyuki' ....
.

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Yamamoto Kansuke
Yamamoto Kansuke

was a Japanese samurai of the 16th century who was one of Takeda Shingen's most trusted Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen. Also known by his formal name, 'Haruyuki' ....
 (Toshiro Mifune
Toshiro Mifune

Toshiro Mifune was a Japanese people actor who appeared in almost 170 feature films. He is best known for his collaboration with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa in films such as Rashomon , Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo ....
) is a general of warlord Takeda Shingen
Takeda Shingen

of Shinano Province and Kai Provinces, was a preeminent daimyo or feudal lord with military prestige who sought for the control of Japan in the late stage of Sengoku period or "warring states" period....
 (Kinnosuke Nakamura), whose titular red banners are his trademark. Yamamoto has a ruthless but effective approach to battle and politics, and advises Tadeka Shingen on almost everything he does, including the assassination of Suwa Yorishige
Suwa Yorishige

For the samurai by the same name who died in 1335, see Suwa Yorishige . was lord of Kuwabara castle when it was Siege of Kuwabara by Takeda Shingen in 1542....
 (Akihiko Hirata
Akihiko Hirata

was a Japanese film actor. He starred in many movies, including Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, and many other Godzilla-themed movies....
).






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is a Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese samurai drama
Samurai cinema

While earlier samurai period pieces were more dramatic rather than action-based, samurai movies post World War II have become more action-based, with darker and more violent characters....
 film released in 1969. It was directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
Hiroshi Inagaki

Hiroshi Inagaki was a Japanese filmmaker most known for the Academy Awards-winning Samurai Trilogy, which he directed. Before becoming a director and screenwriter, Inagaki was a child actor....
 and is based on the life of the famous Sengoku-era battle strategist, Yamamoto Kansuke
Yamamoto Kansuke

was a Japanese samurai of the 16th century who was one of Takeda Shingen's most trusted Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen. Also known by his formal name, 'Haruyuki' ....
.

Plot


Yamamoto Kansuke
Yamamoto Kansuke

was a Japanese samurai of the 16th century who was one of Takeda Shingen's most trusted Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen. Also known by his formal name, 'Haruyuki' ....
 (Toshiro Mifune
Toshiro Mifune

Toshiro Mifune was a Japanese people actor who appeared in almost 170 feature films. He is best known for his collaboration with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa in films such as Rashomon , Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo ....
) is a general of warlord Takeda Shingen
Takeda Shingen

of Shinano Province and Kai Provinces, was a preeminent daimyo or feudal lord with military prestige who sought for the control of Japan in the late stage of Sengoku period or "warring states" period....
 (Kinnosuke Nakamura), whose titular red banners are his trademark. Yamamoto has a ruthless but effective approach to battle and politics, and advises Tadeka Shingen on almost everything he does, including the assassination of Suwa Yorishige
Suwa Yorishige

For the samurai by the same name who died in 1335, see Suwa Yorishige . was lord of Kuwabara castle when it was Siege of Kuwabara by Takeda Shingen in 1542....
 (Akihiko Hirata
Akihiko Hirata

was a Japanese film actor. He starred in many movies, including Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, and many other Godzilla-themed movies....
). Of Lord Suwa's household, Princess Yu (Yoshiko Sakuma) refuses to commit suicide, and the film comes to center on a love triangle between the lord, his general, and the princess.

The movie ends with the fourth Battle of Kawanakajima, in which Yamamoto erroneously believes his battle tactics have failed and commits a pincer attack, but is killed in action before the battle is won.