Samurai saga
/
或る剣豪の生涯
/
Life of an Expert Swordsman
director:
Hiroshi Inagaki
actor:
Toshirō Mifune
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Yōko Tsukasa
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Akira Takarada
/
Keiko Awaji
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Seizaburō Kawazu
…
genre:
Action
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Drama
language:
Japanese
length: 1h 51m
release date:
1959-04-28
(Release)
IMDb: tt0052579
或る剣豪の生涯
overview
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.