Samurai Saga

Samurai Saga (1959)

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.

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  • Release Date: 1959-04-28
  • Runtime: 1h 51min
  • Director: Hiroshi Inagaki

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  • Cast

    • 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 Ōmura

      (uncredited)

    • Hideyo Amamoto

      (uncredited)

    • Haruo Tanaka

      (uncredited)

    • Kichijirō Ueda

      (uncredited)

    • Fumindo Matsuo

      (uncredited)

    • Chieko Nakakita

      (uncredited)

    • Akira Sera

      (uncredited)

    • Mitsuo Tsuda

      (uncredited)

    • Yasuhisa Tsutsumi

      (uncredited)

    • Setsuko Wakayama

      (uncredited)

    • Ren Yamamoto

      (uncredited)

    • Shin Ōtomo

      (uncredited)