Warring Clans

Warring Clans (戦国野郎; Sengoku Yarō) is a 1963 Japanese samurai film directed by Kihachi Okamoto with a screenplay by Okamoto, Takeshi Sano and Shinichi Sekizawa.^[1][2] The film is about a disenchanted samurai who resorts to smuggling weapons for a rival army.^[1]

Warring Clans
Directed by	Kihachi Okamoto
Screenplay by	Kihachi Okamoto Takeshi Sano Shinichi Sekizawa[1]
Produced by	Tomoyuki Tanaka[1]
Starring	Yūzō Kayama Makoto Satō Yuriko Hoshi Kumi Mizuno
Cinematography	Yuzuru Aizawa[1]
Music by	Masaru Sato[1]
Production company	Toho[1]
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	24 March 1963 (1963-03-24) (Japan)
Running time	97 minutes[1]
Country	Japan

Japanese cinema specialist David Desser called the film "eccentric".^[3]

Plot

A lone masterless warrior with some new friends helps ship 300 rifles to a Japanese warlord during the Sengoku period.

Cast

• Yūzō Kayama as Ochi
• Makoto Satō as Kinoshita Tokichiro
• Yuriko Hoshi as Sagiri
• Kumi Mizuno as Lady Taki
• Hiroshi Hasegawa as Hachisuka Koroku
• Jun Tazaki as Ariyoshi Sosuke
• Ichirō Nakatani as Doshi Harima

Release

Warring Clans was distributed by Toho in Japan on March 24, 1963.^[1] It was distributed with English-language subtitles by Toho International in the United States on July 19, 1963.^[1] An English-dubbed version was also produced.^[1]