Samurai Banners
1969 · 165 MIN · IMDB 7.0 · 842 VOTES · DIR. Hiroshi Inagaki
Overview
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?
Dialogue Timeline — 1,557 lines
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00:00:02 Toho Co., Ltd. Presents
00:06:59 Ozora Mayumi Harukawa Masumi Togo Haruko Sawai Keiko Kuga Yoshiko
00:14:46 Well, sir, that surely is the case...
00:20:25 Old men are too energetic for me sometimes.
00:25:23 Princess Yu, meet Yamamoto Kansuke, a messenger from my brother in Kofuchu.
00:35:36 Dispatch our men immediately! We must take advantage of Lord Suwa's death!
00:41:25 Silence, Kansuke...
00:47:52 So persuade Princess Yu to become my concubine, without fail. Understood?
00:57:07 However... as Murakami's army is dispersed and in flight...
01:01:36 ...l didn't see the whole picture... l couldn't be certain.
01:07:02 You told me to become the Lord's concubine... and l submitted.
01:13:25 That's all l've come to tell you!
01:20:03 But, even so, Kansuke...
01:28:57 Will you... let me have my way?
01:39:24 Sir, we won't make it... lf we retreat, they'll get us from behind.
01:48:04 lt'd just be too disheartening... for me to have to tell her.
01:54:23 Excuse me, sir. Sir ltagaki has arrived.
02:03:08 ...no... l cannot die even if l'm killed!
02:09:04 Princess Yu... has passed away!
02:18:39 As much as l'd like to, you know that l'll not go out and fight until l'm of age!
02:23:32 You know very well who spoke those words.
02:29:00 Who goes there?! "Wind!"
02:35:37 Are you going, Kansuke?
24:15:05 The army of Uesugi Kenshin marches to Shinano.