is a Japanese

film A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ...

directed by

Tai Kato was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He was best known for making yakuza films at the Toei Company in 1960s. Biography Born in Hyōgo Prefecture, Kato was the nephew of the film director Sadao Yamanaka. He entered the Toho studio in ...

in 1963. It is a jidaigeki

musical Musical is the adjective of music. Musical may also refer to: * Musical theatre, a performance art that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance * Musical film and television, a genre of film and television that incorporates into the narr ...

about Sasuke Sarutobi and the

Sanada Ten Braves The are a legendary group of ninja that assisted the warlord Sanada Yukimura during the Warring States era of Japan; that is, the late Sengoku period and its immediate aftermath, also known as the Azuchi–Momoyama and the early Edo periods. Th ...

who, under the leadership of Yukimura Sanada, try to defend Toyotomi Hideyori during the siege of Osaka Castle by the Tokugawa armies.

Yoshiyuki Fukuda is a Japanese playwright, screenwriter, and director. Remembered as one of the founding figures of the ''Angura'' ("underground") theatre movement in Japan, Fukuda also served as chairman of the Japan Directors Association from 2003 to 2007. Ear ...

helped adapt his own stage play for the screen.

Cast

* Kinnosuke Yorozuya as Sasuke * Misako Watanabe * Minoru Chiaki: Sanada Yukimura

References

External links

* *
Sanada fūunroku
' at the Japanese Cinema Database *
Sanada fūunroku
' in the database of the

National Film Center The is an independent administrative institution and one of Japan's seven national museums of art, which specializes in preserving and exhibiting the film heritage of Japan. In its previous incarnation, it was the National Film Center, which was p ...

1963 films Films directed by Tai Kato Jidaigeki films Japanese musical films Toei Company films Samurai films 1963 musical films Cultural depictions of Sanada clan 1960s Japanese films 1960s Japanese-language films {{musical-film-stub