Bushido, Samurai Saga
| Bushido, Samurai Saga | |
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 Film poster | |
| Directed by | Tadashi Imai |
| Written by | Norio Nanjo Naoyuki Suzuki Yoshikata Yoda |
| Produced by | Hiroshi Okawa |
| Starring | Kinnosuke Nakamura |
| Cinematography | Makoto Tsuboi |
Release date |
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Running time | 122 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Bushido, Samurai Saga (武士道残酷物語, Bushidō zankoku monogatari) is a 1963 Japanese action film directed by Tadashi Imai. [1] It was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Golden Bear.[2]
Plot
The story covers seven generations of a family, from the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate at the start of the 17th century to the early 1960s, and the extremes various members went to out of complete devotion and unswerving loyalty to lord, country or company.
Cast
- Kinnosuke Nakamura - Jirozaemon / Iikura / Sajiemon / Kyutaro / Shuzo / Shingo / Osamu / Susumu
- Eijirō Tōno - Shibiku-Shosuke Hori
- Kyōko Kishida - Lady Hagi
- Masayuki Mori - Lord Tambanokami Munemasa Hori
- Shinjirō Ehara - Shibiku-Shosuke Yasutaka Hori
- Takeshi Katō
- Yoshiko Mita - Kyoko Hitomi
- Ineko Arima - Maki, Shuzo's wife
- Isao Kimura - Hirotaro Iguchi (as Ko Kimura)
- Michiko Araki - Shigeno, Kyutaro's mother
- Emiko Azuma - Hori Tamba's wife
- Yoshi Katō - Takahiro Hori
- Choichiro Kawarazaki - Young man at village
- Kikko Matsuoka - Sato, Shuzo's daughter
- Kō Nishimura - Yamaoka
- Masao Oda - Gohei
- Satomi Oka - Fuji
- Nobuo Kawai - Shimoda
- Kei Satō - Saburobei Konoe
- Misako Watanabe - Yasu, Sajiemon's wife
- Kei Yamamoto - Kazuma Noda
- Eijirō Yanagi - Gonnosuke Shizuta
References
- ^ "Bushido, Samurai Saga". Film Affinity. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
- ^ "Berlinale: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 13 February 2010.
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