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Rating: 7 stars

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All movies seen on 04/29/2023

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Samurai Saga (1959)

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki

Drama | Action

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

Decided to rewatch this one since it has been a few years and back when I watched DKU on my MacBook. Previous comments still stand, an amusing and tragic adaptation of the Cyrano de Bergerac play. Mifune is really good and that ending is sad AF.

This was programmed for the Akira Takarada weekend (his birthday) and he’s a good lunkheaded pretty boy samurai.

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