Samurai Saga

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.

Action Drama

Toshirō Mifune

(Heihachiro Komaki)

Yōko Tsukasa

(Lady Ochii / Princess Chiyo)

Akira Takarada

(Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe)

Keiko Awaji

(Nanae)

Seizaburō Kawazu

(Nagashima)

Kamatari Fujiwara

(Rakuzo the sake seller (uncredited))

Akihiko Hirata

(Akaboshi)

Eiko Miyoshi

(Okuni)

Sachio Sakai

((uncredited))

Yoshifumi Tajima

((uncredited))

Akira Tani

((uncredited))

Yutaka Sada

((uncredited))

Senkichi Ōmura

((uncredited))

Hideyo Amamoto

((uncredited))

Haruo Tanaka

((uncredited))

Kichijirō Ueda

((uncredited))

Fumindo Matsuo

((uncredited))

Chieko Nakakita

((uncredited))

Akira Sera

((uncredited))

Mitsuo Tsuda

((uncredited))

Yasuhisa Tsutsumi

((uncredited))

Setsuko Wakayama

((uncredited))

Ren Yamamoto

((uncredited))

Shin Ōtomo

((uncredited))