Samurai Saga

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.

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki

Top cast

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)

A

Akira Tani

(uncredited)

Yutaka Sada

(uncredited)

Senkichi Ōmura

(uncredited)

Hideyo Amamoto

(uncredited)

Haruo Tanaka

(uncredited)

Kichijirō Ueda

(uncredited)

F

Fumindo Matsuo

(uncredited)

Chieko Nakakita

(uncredited)

A

Akira Sera

(uncredited)

M

Mitsuo Tsuda

(uncredited)

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