Film · Drama, History
Minamoto Yoshitsune (1955)
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.
- Director
- Ryō Hagiwara
- Writers
- Fuji Yahiro, Genzō Murakami
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Release date
- July 30, 1955
- Original title
- 源義経
Cast
Kinnosuke NakamuraMinamoto Yoshitsune
Hitomi Nakahara
Ryūnosuke TsukigataBenkei
Isuzu Yamada
Eitarō Ozawa
Chiaki Tsukioka
Ichirō Ryūzaki
Kensaku Hara
Ushio Akashi- Tokizo Nakamura
Daijiro Natsukawa- Masaharu Nakano
Eijirō Kataoka- Hiroshi Mizuno
Motoharu Ueki- Chie Ueki
Yoshio Yoshida- Reiko Miyagawa
Takashi Kanda
Gorō Kawabe
