Samurai saga

You fence and write poems in feudal Japan, though your large nose precedes you. But your big heart aches for a woman beyond your reach, so you ghostwrite love letters for a handsome fool. Inagaki's widescreen compositions lend scale to a small, sad story.

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Hiroshi Inagaki directed Samurai saga in 1959. See Hiroshi Inagaki's full filmography, where to start with Hiroshi Inagaki, or where to go after you've seen everything by Hiroshi Inagaki.

Samurai saga was released in 1959 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 111 minutes.