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.

Cast

Heihachiro Komaki
Toshirō Mifune
Lady Ochii / Princess Chiyo
Yōko Tsukasa
(uncredited)
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
Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe
Akira Takarada
(uncredited)
Yasuhisa Tsutsumi
(uncredited)
Setsuko Wakayama
(uncredited)
Ren Yamamoto
(uncredited)
Shin Ōtomo
Nanae
Keiko Awaji
Nagashima
Seizaburō Kawazu
Rakuzo the sake seller (uncredited)
Kamatari Fujiwara
Akaboshi
Akihiko Hirata
Okuni
Eiko Miyoshi
(uncredited)
Sachio Sakai
(uncredited)
Yoshifumi Tajima

Crew

Director
Hiroshi Inagaki
Writer
Hiroshi Inagaki
Producer
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Original Music Composer
Akira Ifukube
Director of Photography
K Kazuo Yamada
Art Direction
Y Yoshiaki Ito
Sound
Y Yoshio Nishikawa
Assistant Director
T Teruo Maru
Production Design
K Kisaku Ito