Samurai Saga

Hiroshi Inagaki
1959-04-28


6.7
111 min

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.

Cast

Name Character Team
Toshirō Mifune Heihachiro Komaki Unowned
Yōko Tsukasa Lady Ochii / Princess Chiyo Unowned
Akira Takarada Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe Unowned
Keiko Awaji Nanae Unowned
Seizaburō Kawazu Nagashima Unowned
Kamatari Fujiwara Rakuzo the sake seller (uncredited) Unowned
Akihiko Hirata Akaboshi Unowned
Eiko Miyoshi Okuni Unowned
Sachio Sakai (uncredited) Unowned
Yoshifumi Tajima (uncredited) Unowned
Akira Tani (uncredited) Unowned
Yutaka Sada (uncredited) Unowned
Senkichi Ōmura (uncredited) Unowned
Hideyo Amamoto (uncredited) Unowned
Haruo Tanaka (uncredited) Unowned
Kichijirō Ueda (uncredited) Unowned
Fumindo Matsuo (uncredited) Unowned
Chieko Nakakita (uncredited) Unowned
Akira Sera (uncredited) Unowned
Mitsuo Tsuda (uncredited) Unowned
Yasuhisa Tsutsumi (uncredited) Unowned
Setsuko Wakayama (uncredited) Unowned
Ren Yamamoto (uncredited) Unowned
Shin Ōtomo (uncredited) Unowned