The Saga of Tanegashima

May 18, 1968

1h 49m

★ 5.0

Overview

Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ran aground off Tanegashima. Lord Tokitaka helped Captain Pinto repair his ship. The grateful captain offered the lord a gift--a matchlock musket—the first firearm ever seen in Japan. But like a great stone hurled into placid waters, this simple gift will start a revolution. Tokitaka tasks Kinbei, his greatest swordsmith, to copy this musket and build guns for Japan. While Kinbei struggles to forge Japan’s first musket, a great love blooms between Captain Pinto and Kinbei’s daughter Wakasa. But for Kinbei, to let Wakasa marry Pinto and go to Portugal is unthinkable. And as Kinbei creates Japan’s first matchlock factory, Lord Oda Nobunaga will seize upon firearms as the key to sweep all other clans before him, tearing a blood-soaked path of destruction through Japan.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Daiei Film

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Cast

Captain Pinto

Rick Jason

Wakasa

Ayako Wakao

Kinbei Yaita

Eijirō Tōno

Otane

Shiho Fujimura

Nobunaga Oda

Jun Fujimaki

Matasaburo Tachibanaya

Asao Koike

Sakuji

Ichirō Nakatani

Wufeng

Rokkō Toura

Tokitada Oribenojô

Ryūtarō Gomi

Tokiaki Tanegashima

Taketoshi Naitō

Shigeomi

Kōichi Mizuhara

Tokunoshin Wakita

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