Shogun's Samurai(Movie, 1978)

Name: Shogun's Samurai
Genre: Action, Drama, Adventure
Released: 1978
Duration: T02:10:00
Rating: 3.7

Original title: "柳生一族の陰謀" (Japanese/JA)

2h 10min | Genres: Action, Drama, Adventure

Rating: 3.7/5 (with 15 votes)

Shogun's Samurai, known in Japan as The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy (Japanese: 柳生一族の陰謀, Hepburn: Yagyū Ichizoku no Inbō), is a 1978 Japanese historical martial arts period film directed and co-written by Kinji Fukasaku. The film is the first of two unrelated Fukasaku films to star Shinichi "Sonny" Chiba as Jūbei Mitsuyoshi Yagyū, the other being Samurai Reincarnation. The film was adapted into a 39-episode TV series, The Yagyu Conspiracy (1978–1979), and two TV film remakes were released in 2008 and 2020. ()

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Awards & Nominations for Shogun's Samurai

nominated for: Japan Academy Film Prize for Picture of the Year nominated for: Japan Academy Film Prize for Screenplay of the Year

About Shogun's Samurai

Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and birthmark which undermine his respect. Iemitsu and his brother Tadanaga become bitter rivals for the shogunate, and the land is split into factions, eventually erupting into warfare. Iemitsu's mentor, his fencing instructor Yagyu, is fixated upon securing Iemitsu the shogunate and ends up betraying everyone, even his own family, in pursuit of the goal.

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Trailer for Shogun's Samurai + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Ɵ?生一族の陰謀(予告編)(Trailer, 5:23)

Additional Information

Production country: Japan

Plays in: Edo

Made by: Toei

Original language: Japanese (JA)

Spoken languages: Japanese (JA)

Translated into 9 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Japanese (JA), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 12/07/1984 (World premiere: 01/21/1978)

Cast: Yorozuya Kinnosuke, Sonny Chiba, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tetsurō Tamba, Isuzu Yamada, Mikio Narita, Reiko Ohara, Shinsuke Ashida, Toshirō Mifune, Hiroki Matsukata, Teruhiko Saigō, Yoshio Harada, Etsuko Shihomi, Hideo Murota, Nobuo Kaneko, Isao Natsuyagi

Director: Kinji Fukasaku

Screenwriter: Kinji Fukasaku

Composer: Toshiaki Tsushima

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Shogun Samourai"

"Yagyû ichizoku no inbô"

"Shogun's Samurai The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy"

"Yagyu Clan Conspiracy"

Keywords: martial arts, samurai, shogun

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