Sengoku burai

Another Japanese film from the 50s with the famous tandem of Toshiro Mifune and Akira Kurosawa, Akira Kurosawa here being only one of the screenwriters. Toshiro Mifune, as in many other famous films of his, is, what else could he be, than a samurai, a very good samurai. Two women fall in love with him and, it is not very clear, if he is also equally in love with both, with the same intensity, he being more of a dreamer, who dreams of "flying from the top of the highest mountains like a bird". The two female beauties are Shirley Yamaguchi in the role of Oryo (as Yoshiko Yamaguchi) and Shinobu Asaji in the role of Kano. Hiroshi Inagaki, the director, made a film similar to the samurai productions of Akira Korosawa or Masaki Kobayashi.