Warring Clans

Warring Clans
Directed byKihachi Okamoto
Screenplay by
Produced byTomoyuki Tanaka[1]
Starring
CinematographyYuzuru Aizawa[1]
Music byMasaru Sato[1]
Production
company
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • 24 March 1963 (1963-03-24) (Japan)
Running time
97 minutes[1]
CountryJapan

Warring Clans (戦国野郎, Sengoku Yarō) is a 1963 Japanese samurai film directed by Kihachi Okamoto with a screenplay by Okamoto, Takeshi Sano and Shinichi Sekizawa.[1][2] The film is about a disenchanted samurai who resorts to smuggling weapons for a rival army.[1]

Japanese cinema specialist David Desser called the film "eccentric".[3]

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.[1] It was distributed with English-language subtitles by Toho International in the United States on July 19, 1963.[1] An English-dubbed version was also produced.[1]

References

Citations
  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k 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.


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