| Warring Clans | |
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| Directed by | Kihachi Okamoto |
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| Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka |
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| Cinematography | Yuzuru Aizawa |
| Music by | Masaru Sato |
| Production company | Toho |
| Distributed by | Toho |
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| Running time | 97 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
Warring Clans (戦国野郎, Sengoku Yarō) is a 1963 Japanese samurai film directed by Kihachi Okamoto with a screenplay by Okamoto, Takeshi Sano and Shinichi Sekizawa. The film is about a disenchanted samurai who resorts to smuggling weapons for a rival army.
Japanese cinema specialist David Desser called the film "eccentric".
Plot
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A lone masterless warrior with some new friends helps ship 300 rifles to a Japanese warlord during the Sengoku period.
Cast
- Yūzō Kayama as Ochi
- Makoto Satō as Kinoshita Tokichiro
- Yuriko Hoshi as Sagiri
- Kumi Mizuno as Lady Taki
- Hiroshi Hasegawa as Hachisuka Koroku
- Jun Tazaki as Ariyoshi Sosuke
- Ichirō Nakatani as Doshi Harima
Release
Warring Clans was distributed by Toho in Japan on March 24, 1963. It was distributed with English-language subtitles by Toho International in the United States on July 19, 1963. An English-dubbed version was also produced.
References
- Citations
- ^ Galbraith IV 2008, p. 200.
- "戦国野郎とは" (in Japanese). kotobank. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
- David Desser, The Samurai Films of Akira Kurosawa (p.100)
Bibliography
- Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1461673743.
External links
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- 1963 films
- 1960s Japanese films
- 1960s Japanese-language films
- 1960s martial arts films
- Japanese black-and-white films
- Films directed by Kihachi Okamoto
- Films produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka
- Films scored by Masaru Sato
- Films with screenplays by Shinichi Sekizawa
- 1960s samurai films
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