Sengoku Yaro
| Sengoku Yarō (Warring Clans) | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Kihachi Okamoto |
| Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka |
| Written by |
Kihachi Okamoto Ken Sano Shinichi Sekizawa |
| Starring | Yūzō Kayama |
| Music by | Masaru Sato |
| Cinematography | Yuzuru Aizawa |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Toho Company |
Release dates | 1963 |
Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Sengoku Yarō (戦国野郎, literally: "Sengoku Rascal")[1] is a 1963 Japanese jidaigeki period black comedy adventure film directed by Kihachi Okamoto, co-written by Shinichi Sekizawa and starring Yūzō Kayama. Masaru Sato composed the music for the film. It is known in the English version as Warring Clans.
The film also starred Ichirō Nakatani, Makoto Satō, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Jun Tazaki, Yuriko Hoshi, Tadao Nakamaru, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Kumi Mizuno, Hideyo Amamoto (as Eisei Amamoto), Yutaka Nakayama, Masanari Nihei (as Masanori Nihei), Yoshifumi Tajima, Kazuo Suzuki, Ren Yamamoto, Naoya Kusakawa and Ikio Sawamura.
A widescreen home version of the film was released on DVD in Japan in 2006.
Japanese cinema specialist David Desser called the film "eccentric".[2]
References
- ↑ Toho Kingdom: Warring Clans
- ↑ David Desser, The Samurai Films of Akira Kurosawa (p.100)