is a 1963 Japanese samurai film directed by Kihachi Okamoto with a screenplay by Okamoto, Takeshi Sano and Shinichi Sekizawa. The film is about a disenchanted samurai who resorts to smuggling weapons for a rival army.
Japanese cinema specialist David Desser called the film "eccentric".David Desser, The Samurai Films of Akira Kurosawa (p.100)
Plot
A lone masterless warrior with some new friends helps ship 300 rifles to a Japanese warlord during the Sengoku period.
Cast Yūzō Kayama as Ochi Makoto Satō as Kinoshita Tokichiro Yuriko Hoshi as Sagiri Kumi Mizuno as Lady Taki Hiroshi Hasegawa as Hachisuka Koroku Jun Tazaki as Ariyoshi Sosuke Ichirō Nakatani as Doshi Harima
Release Warring Clans was distributed by Toho in Japan on March 24, 1963. It was distributed with English-language subtitles by Toho International in the United States on July 19, 1963. An English-dubbed version was also produced.
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External links
Sengoku Yaro - Vintage Ninja