Samurai Saga

6.7
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Run time: 111 min
  • Premiere: 1959. April 28.

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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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)

Yoshibumi 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)

Art

Yoshiaki Ito

Art Direction

Kisaku Ito

Production Design

Camera

Kazuo Yamada

Director of Photography

Directing

Hiroshi Inagaki

Director

Teruo Maru

Assistant Director

Production

Tomoyuki Tanaka

Producer

Sound

Akira Ifukube

Original Music Composer

Yoshio Nishikawa

Sound

Writing

Hiroshi Inagaki

Writer

Art

Yoshiaki Ito

Art Direction

Kisaku Ito

Production Design

Camera

Kazuo Yamada

Director of Photography

Directing

Hiroshi Inagaki

Director

Teruo Maru

Assistant Director

Production

Tomoyuki Tanaka

Producer

Sound

Akira Ifukube

Original Music Composer

Yoshio Nishikawa

Sound

Writing

Hiroshi Inagaki

Writer