Under The Banner Of Samurai

A fine samurai film produced by Mifune's production company and starring the veteran samurai actor who has starred in such greats as THE SEVEN SAMURAI (1954) and THRONE OF BLOOD (1957). As expected, Tifune plays a veteran samurai hired as an advisor by a great warlord. The warlord at first fails to heed the advice, which eventually leads to Mifune's wreaking vengeance without the warlord's permission. Romance then heightens the conflict, as both the samurai and the warlord fall in love with a princess, daughter of the man Mifune has killed. She hates Mifune for killing her father and chooses to marry the warlord. After a number of years Mifune is killed in a major ...