Watch Samurai Banners (1969)

Samurai Banners 1969 Feudal Japan, 1543 to 1562 Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife as a concubine He then convinces the widow, Princess Yu, to accept this arrangement and to bear Takeda a son He pledges them his life He then spends years using treachery, poetic sensibility, military and political strategy to expand Takedas realm, advance the claim of Yus son as the heir, and prepare for an ultimate battle with the forces of Echigo Has Kansuke overreached Are his dreams, blinded by love, too big