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Bushido, Samurai Saga

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Wikipedia article




{{Infobox film

| name = Bushido, Samurai Saga

| image = Bushido, Samurai Saga FilmPoster.jpeg

| caption = Film poster

| director = Tadashi Imai

| producer = Hiroshi Okawa

| writer =

| starring = Kinnosuke Nakamura

| music = Toshiro Mayuzumi

| cinematography = Makoto Tsuboi

| editing = Shintaro Miyamoto

| studio = Toei

| distributor = Toei

| released =

| runtime = 122 minutes

| country = Japan

| language = Japanese

}}

, also titled 'Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai' and 'Cruel Tale of Bushido', is a 1963 Japanese drama and jidaigeki film directed by Tadashi Imai. It was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Golden Bear.

Plot



The story covers seven generations of a family, from the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate to the early 1960s, and the extremes its members take out of devotion and unswerving loyalty to lord, country or company, at the cost of their lives and those of close relatives. Susumu, the last in line of male heirs, finally decides against this stance after his fiance's suicide attempt.

Cast



* Kinnosuke Nakamura as Jirozaemon / Iikura / Sajiemon / Kyutaro / Shuzo / Shingo / Osamu / Susumu

* Eijir Tno as Shibiku-Shosuke Hori

* Kyko Kishida as Lady Hagi

* Masayuki Mori as Lord Tambanokami Munemasa Hori

* Shinjir Ehara as Shibiku-Shosuke Yasutaka Hori

* Takeshi Kat

* Yoshiko Mita as Kyoko Hitomi

* Ineko Arima as Maki, Shuzo's wife

* Isao Kimura as Hirotaro Iguchi (as Ko Kimura)

* Michiko Araki as Shigeno, Kyutaro's mother

* Emiko Azuma as Hori Tamba's wife

* Yoshi Kat as Takahiro Hori

* Choichiro Kawarazaki as Young man at village

* Kikko Matsuoka as Sato, Shuzo's daughter

* K Nishimura as Yamaoka

* Masao Oda as Gohei

* Ryosuke Kagawa as Kzuki Genza

* Satomi Oka as Fuji

* Nobuo Kawai as Shimoda

* Kei Sat as Saburobei Konoe

* Misako Watanabe as Yasu, Sajiemon's wife

* Kei Yamamoto as Kazuma Noda

* Eijir Yanagi as Gonnosuke Shizuta

References




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