Warring Clans

1963 Japanese film
  • Kihachi Okamoto
  • Takeshi Sano
  • Shinichi Sekizawa[1]
Produced byTomoyuki Tanaka[1]Starring
CinematographyYuzuru Aizawa[1]Music byMasaru Sato[1]
Production
company
Toho[1]
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • 24 March 1963 (1963-03-24) (Japan)
Running time
97 minutes[1]CountryJapan

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.[1][2] The film is about a disenchanted samurai who resorts to smuggling weapons for a rival army.[1]

Japanese cinema specialist David Desser called the film "eccentric".[3]

Plot

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.[1] It was distributed with English-language subtitles by Toho International in the United States on July 19, 1963.[1] An English-dubbed version was also produced.[1]

References

Citations
  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Galbraith IV 2008, p. 200.
  2. ^ "戦国野郎とは" (in Japanese). kotobank. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  3. ^ 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.
  • Warring Clans at IMDb
  • Sengoku Yaro - Vintage Ninja
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