Warring Clans


Warring Clans is a 1963 Japanese samurai film directed by Kihachi Okamoto with a screenplay by Okamoto, Takeshi Sano and Shinichi Sekizawa. The film is about a disenchanted samurai who resorts to smuggling weapons for a rival army.
Japanese cinema specialist David Desser called the film "eccentric".

Plot

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

Cast

Release

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