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Rating: 7 stars

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All movies seen on 06/30/2018

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Samurai Saga (1959)

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki

Action | Drama

Overview

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.

Length 111 minutes

Actors

Toshirō Mifune | Yôko Tsukasa | Akira Takarada | Keiko Awaji | Seizaburô Kawazu | Kamatari Fujiwara | Akihiko Hirata | Eiko Miyoshi | Sachio Sakai | Yoshifumi Tajima | Akira Tani | Yutaka Sada | Senkichi Ômura | Hideyo Amamoto | Haruo Tanaka | Kichijirô Ueda | Fumindo Matsuo | Chieko Nakakita | Akira Sera | Mitsuo Tsuda | Yasuhisa Tsutsumi | Setsuko Wakayama | Ren Yamamoto | Shin Ôtomo

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

Had this on my radar bc it’s not available on home video as far as I know… and it stars Akira Takarada and Toshiro Mifune! Mifune is the Cyrano de Bergerac character in the story so it’s rather humorous to see him as the large nosed poet with a certain way w/words. Takarada is the brash young samurai who cannot talk to women and fails repeatedly in making Princess Chiyo interested in him. Of course then the Cyrano de Bergerac story kicks in and she is utterly wooed by him until he and Mifune’s Komaki go off to war.

Wouldn’t consider this great cinema but it is certainly fun to see these guys doing a literary adaptation and exchanging lines. Also a great cast of Toho greats plus a score that I am positive is Akira Ifukube.

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