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Warring Clans
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Wikipedia article
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| director = Kihachi Okamoto
| producer = Tomoyuki Tanaka
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| music = Masaru Sato
| cinematography = Yuzuru Aizawa
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| studio = Toho
| distributor = Toho
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| runtime = 97 minutes
| country = Japan
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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".David Desser, 'The Samurai Films of Akira Kurosawa' (p.100)
Plot
Cast
* Yz Kayama as Ochi
* Makoto Sat as Kinoshita Tokichiro
* Yuriko Hoshi as Sagiri
* Kumi Mizuno as Lady Taki
* Hiroshi Hasegawa as Hachisuka Koroku
* Jun Tazaki as Ariyoshi Sosuke
* Ichir 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.
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