Minamoto Yoshitsune(1955)

🎬100 min
📅1955-07-30
🎭Drama, History

Overview

A historical scroll depicting the story of the tragic fate of the young samurai Minamoto Yoshitsune, based on the novel by Genzo Murakami. The action of the first part takes place in the late Heian period, when the Taira clan came to power, and Genji was oppressed. The great dream and ambitions of Genkuro Yoshitsune in his youth are depicted, he joins forces with his older brother Yoritomo to raise an army to defeat the Taira clan, and the second part depicts the fall of the clan, persecution and murder.

Production

Toei Company

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Cast

Kinnosuke Nakamura
as Minamoto Yoshitsune
Hitomi Nakahara
as
Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
as Benkei
Isuzu Yamada
as
Eitarō Ozawa
as
Chiaki Tsukioka
as
Ichirō Ryūzaki
as
Kensaku Hara
as
Ushio Akashi
as
Tokizo Nakamura
as