Samurai Saga (1959)
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.
- Released
- 1959-04-28
- Genres
- Action, Drama
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Hiroshi Inagaki
- TMDB rating
- 6.9/10 from 19 votes
Cast
- Toshirō Mifune as Heihachiro Komaki
- Yōko Tsukasa as Lady Ochii / Princess Chiyo
- Akira Takarada as Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe
- Keiko Awaji as Nanae
- Seizaburō Kawazu as Nagashima
- Kamatari Fujiwara as Rakuzo the sake seller (uncredited)
- Akihiko Hirata as Akaboshi
- Eiko Miyoshi as Okuni
- Sachio Sakai as (uncredited)
- Yoshibumi Tajima as (uncredited)
- Akira Tani as (uncredited)
- Yutaka Sada as (uncredited)