Furin kazan

Furin kazan (風林火山) is a Japanese film carried out by Hiroshi Inagaki, left in 1969.

Synopsis

Japan between 1543 and 1562. Kansuke Yamamoto dream of a unified and alleviated country. It enters to the service of the chief of clan Shingen Takeda and became its general and adviser, ready to arrive to its goal by all the means.

Data sheet

French Title: (sometimes Banners of the winds and volcanos )
original Title: 風林火山
Realization: Hiroshi Inagaki
Scenario: Shinobu Hashimoto and Takeo Kunihiro, according to a news of Yasushi Inoue
Production: Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirō Mifune, Tomoyuki Tanaka and Yoshio Nishikawa
Music: Masaru Sato
Photography: Kazuo Yamada
Assembly: Yoshihiro Araki
Country of origin: Japan
Format: Color - Tohoscope - Mono - 35 mm
Lasted: 165 minutes
Coming out date: 1969

Distribution

Toshirō Mifune : Kansuke Yamamoto
Yoshiko Sakuma : Princess Yufu
Kinnosuke Nakamura: Shingen Takeda
Yūjirō Ishihara : Kenshin Uesugi
Katsuo Nakamura : Nobusato Itagaki
Kankuro Nakamura : Katsuyori Takeda
Kanemon Nakamura : Nobukata Itagaki
Masakazu Tamura : Nobushige Takeda
Mayumi Ozora : Princess Okoto
Ken Ogata
Takashi Shimura

Around film

Furin kazan is in fact the famous quotation Fu-Rin-Ka-Zan of the Art of the war of Sun Tzu which was written on the banner of Shingen Takeda and which means: Fast like the wind, silencer like the forest, wild like fire and motionless like the mountain . This film is regarded as one of best historical films samurais. Akira Kurosawa will return on the character of Shingen Takeda with Kagemusha in 1980.

See too

Furin Kazan on Internet Movie Database

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