Shogun's Samurai

Shogun's Samurai
Region 1 DVD cover
Directed by	Kinji Fukasaku
Written by	Kinji Fukasaku Tatsuo Nogami Hirō Matsuda
Starring	Kinnosuke Yorozuya Shinichi Chiba Hiroki Matsukata
Music by	Toshiaki Tsushima
Cinematography	Norimichi Ikawa
Distributed by	Toei Company, Ltd.
Release dates	1978
Running time	130 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Shogun's Samurai (柳生一族の陰謀, Yagyū Ichizoku no Inbō), also known as "The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy" and "Intrigue of the Yagyu Clan", is a 1978 Japanese historical martial arts period film, directed by Kinji Fukasaku. The film is the first of two period films by Fukasaku starring Shinichi "Sonny" Chiba as Jūbei Mitsuyoshi Yagyū, the other being Samurai Reincarnation. The film received five Japan Academy Prize nominations for best actor (Kinnosuke Yorozuya), best art direction (Norimichi Ikawa), best film, best screenplay (Kinji Fukasaku, Tatsuo Nogami, Hirō Matsuda), and best supporting actor (Shinichi Chiba).

The movie became a teleplay and was broadcast by Kansai Telecasting Corporation for 39 one-hour TV episodes from 1978 to 1979. It is called The Yagyu Conspiracy (柳生一族の陰謀, Yagyū Ichizoku no Inbō).

Cast

Kinnosuke Yorozuya as Tajima-no-kami Munenori Yagyū
Shinichi Chiba as Jūbei Mitsuyoshi Yagyū
Hiroki Matsukata as Iemitsu Tokugawa
Teruhiko Saigō as Tadanaga Tokugawa
Reiko Ohara as Izumo no Okuni
Yoshio Harada as Sanzaburō Nagoya
Etsuko Shihomi as Akane Yagyū
Kentaro Kudo as Matajūrō Munefuyu Yagyū
Jirō Yabuki as Samon Tomonori Yagyū
Hideo Murota as Sagenta Negoro
Hiroyuki Sanada as Hayate
Mayumi Asano as Man
Ichirō Nakatani as Gyōbu Amano
Tetsuro Tamba as Genshinsai Ogasawara
Etsushi Takahashi as Izu-no-kami Nobutsuna Matsudaira
Isao Natsuyagi as Shōzaemon Bekki
Mikio Narita as Shōshō Ayamaro Karasuma
Sanae Nakahara as Lady Kasuga
Nobuo Kaneko as Kanpaku Michifusa Kujō
Shinsuke Ashida as Oi-no-kami Toshikatsu Doi
Isuzu Yamada as Sūgenin Oeyo
Toshirō Mifune as Yoshinao Tokugawa

External links

Shogun's Samurai at the Internet Movie Database
Trailer for Shogun's Samurai on YouTube

Films directed by Kinji Fukasaku

Wandering Detective: Tragedy in Red Valley (1961)
Wandering Detective: Black Wind in the Harbor (1961)
Vigilante With a Funky Hat (1961)
Vigilante With a Funky Hat: The 20,000,000 Yen Arm (1961)
High Noon for Gangsters (1961)
The Proud Challenge (1962)
Gang vs. G-men (1962)
League of Gangsters (1963)
Jakoman and Tetsu (1964)
Wolves, Pigs and People (1964)
The Threat (1966)
The Secret of the Diamond / The Kamikaze Guy (Kamikaze Man: Duel at Noon) (1966)
Rampaging Dragon of the North (1966)
Ceremony of Disbanding (1967)
Gamblers' Ceremony of Disbanding (1968)
Black Lizard (1968)
Blackmail Is My Life (1968)
The Green Slime (1968)
Black Rose Mansion (1969)
Japan's Most Violent Gangs: Boss (1969)
Bloodstained Clan Honor (1970)
If You Were Young: Rage (1970)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (with Richard Fleischer and Toshio Masuda, 1970)
Sympathy for the Underdog (1971)
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (1972)
Street Mobster (1972)
Outlaw Killer: Three Maddog Killers (1972)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War (1973)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics (1974)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode (1974)
Graveyard of Honor (1975)
Cops vs. Thugs (1975)
Gambling Den Heist (1975)
Violent Panic: The Big Crash (1976)
Yakuza Graveyard (1976)
Hokuriku Proxy War (1977)
Doberman Cop (1977)
Shogun's Samurai (1978)
Message from Space (1978)
The Fall of Ako Castle (1978)
Virus (1980)
The Gate of Youth (1981)
Samurai Reincarnation (1981)
Dotonbori River (1982)
Fall Guy (1982)
Theater of Life (1983)
Legend of the Eight Samurai (1983)
Shanghai Rhapsody (1984)
House on Fire (1986)
Sure Death 4: Revenge (1987)
A Chaos of Flowers (1988)
The Triple Cross (1992)
Crest of Betrayal (1994)
The Geisha House (1999)
Battle Royale (2000)
Battle Royale II: Requiem (with Kenta Fukasaku, 2003)

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