The Battle of Kawanakajima (1941)

7.0/10 120 min Drama History War

Overview

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the main supply wagons and the supply troops to transport materiel to the Uesugi army. To this are added episodes involving an itinerant woman.

Cast

Ennosuke Ichikawa

Kenshin Uesugi / Sonkurô Kaiga

Denjirō Ōkōchi

Shingen Takeda

Kazuo Hasegawa

Hyakuzô

Takako Irie

Chiyono - widow

Isuzu Yamada

Oshino

Yataro Kurokawa

Izumokami Anayama

Musei Tokugawa

Ichibei

Sadao Maruyama

Tamenobu Terasaki

Unpei Yokoyama

Nikichi

Sōji Kiyokawa

Hambei

Yōnosuke Toba

Kurôsuke

Kokuten Kōdō

Hiryûji Murakami

Eitarō Shindō

Samanosuke Karasaki

Taizō Fukami

Gorô Imasato

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