Samurai Saga (1959)
或る剣豪の生涯
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.
- Date of release
- 1959-04-28
- TMDB
- 6.9 / 10 (19)
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- Genres
- Action, Drama
- Director
- Hiroshi Inagaki
Casting
- 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)
Interesting facts
- Based on: Cyrano de Bergerac
Life of an Expert Swordsman is a 1959 samurai film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and starring Toshiro Mifune. Its story is an adaptation of the 1897 Edmond Rostand play Cyrano de Bergerac, and its basic plot faithfully follows that of the play. The film was released in the English-speaking world with the title Samurai Saga.
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