Warring Clans (1963)

Original title

戦国野郎

Directed by

Kihachi Okamoto

Genre

Jidaigeki, pirate film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 38m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A samurai who has lost his faith gets involved in smuggling weapons for an enemy army. He navigates double crosses and shifting loyalties while trying to survive.

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What happens

Warring Clans (Japanese: 戦国野郎, Hepburn: Sengoku Yarō) 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". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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