Warring Clans

Warring Clans
Film poster
Directed byKihachi Okamoto
Screenplay by
Produced byTomoyuki Tanaka
Starring
CinematographyYuzuru Aizawa
Edited byYoshitami Kuroiwa
Music byMasaru Sato
Production
company
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • 24 March 1963 (1963-03-24) (Japan)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryJapan

Warring Clans (Japanese: 戦国野郎, Hepburn: Sengoku Yarō) is a 1963 Japanese samurai film directed by Kihachi Okamoto with a screenplay by Okamoto, Takeshi Sano and Shinichi Sekizawa. The film is about a disenchanted samurai who resorts to smuggling weapons for a rival army.

Japanese cinema specialist David Desser called the film "eccentric".

Plot

A lone masterless warrior with some new friends helps ship 300 rifles to a Japanese warlord during the Sengoku period.

Cast

Release

Warring Clans was distributed by Toho in Japan on March 24, 1963. It was distributed with English-language subtitles by Toho International in the United States on July 19, 1963. An English-dubbed version was also produced.

References

Citations
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Galbraith IV 2008, p. 200.
  2. ↑ "戦国野郎とは" (in Japanese). kotobank. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  3. ↑ David Desser, The Samurai Films of Akira Kurosawa (p.100)

Bibliography

  • Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1461673743.