Action ·Drama · Japan · 1959 · 1h 51m

Samurai Saga

或る剣豪の生涯

Director

Cast

Toshirō Mifune as Heihachiro Komaki Yōko Tsukasa as Lady Ochii / Princess Chiyo Akira Takarada as Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe Keiko Awaji as Nanae Seizaburō Kawazu as Nagashima Kamatari Fujiwara as Rakuzo the sake seller (uncredited)

Crew

Kazuo Yamada — Director of Photography Akira Ifukube — Original Music Composer Hiroshi Inagaki — Writer Tomoyuki Tanaka — Producer Kisaku Ito — Production Design

Synopsis

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.

Key Collaborators

Hiroshi Inagaki Director Kazuo Yamada Director of Photography Akira Ifukube Original Music Composer Hiroshi Inagaki Writer Tomoyuki Tanaka Producer Kisaku Ito Production Design

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