Warring Clans

Warring Clans
Warring Clans
Directed by	Kihachi Okamoto
Screenplay by	Kihachi Okamoto; Takeshi Sano; Shinichi Sekizawa;
Produced by	Tomoyuki Tanaka
Starring	Yūzō Kayama; Makoto Satō; Yuriko Hoshi; Kumi Mizuno;
Cinematography	Yuzuru Aizawa
Music by	Masaru Sato
Production; company	Toho
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	24 March 1963 (Japan);
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.^[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

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k 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.

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[FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008200-1] ^ ^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)

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