The Battle of Kawanakajima (1941)
Original title: 川中島合戰
The Battle of Kawanakajima is a 1941 Japanese-language drama movie directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa, with a running time of 2h. It stars Ennosuke Ichikawa, Denjirō Ōkōchi and Kazuo Hasegawa.
This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the main supply wagons and the supply troops to transport materiel to the Uesugi army. To this are added episodes involving an itinerant woman.
Cast
- Ennosuke Ichikawa as Kenshin Uesugi / Sonkurô Kaiga
- Denjirō Ōkōchi as Shingen Takeda
- Kazuo Hasegawa as Hyakuzô
- Takako Irie as Chiyono - widow
- Isuzu Yamada as Oshino
- Yataro Kurokawa as Izumokami Anayama
- Musei Tokugawa as Ichibei
- Sadao Maruyama as Tamenobu Terasaki
- Unpei Yokoyama as Nikichi
- Sōji Kiyokawa as Hambei
- Yōnosuke Toba as Kurôsuke
- Kokuten Kōdō as Hiryûji Murakami