The Saga of Tanegashima (1968)

ALL 05/18/1968 (ja) Drama 109 Min
  • Release
    05/18/1968
  • Production
    Daiei Film
  • Rotten tomato
    50%
  • Original title
    鉄砲伝来記
  • Original language
    ja
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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.

  1. Kazuo Mori

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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Casts

  1. Rick Jason

    Captain Pinto

  2. Ayako Wakao

    Wakasa

  3. Eijirō Tōno

    Kinbei Yaita

  4. Shiho Fujimura

    Otane

  5. Jun Fujimaki

    Nobunaga Oda

  6. Asao Koike

    Matasaburo Tachibanaya

  7. Ichirō Nakatani

    Sakuji

  8. Rokkō Toura

    Wufeng

  9. Ryūtarō Gomi

    Tokitada Oribenojô

  10. Taketoshi Naitō

    Tokiaki Tanegashima

  11. Kōichi Mizuhara

    Shigeomi

  12. Saburo Date

    Tokunoshin Wakita

  13. Gen Kimura

    Tokuzô

  14. Flemming Pedersen

    Wakami

  15. Jun Fujikawa

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 15 , Crews : 3

Keyword

The Saga of Tanegashima (1968) 109 Min

ALL 05/18/1968 (ja)
Drama
  • Release 05/18/1968
  • Production
    Daiei Film
  • Original title 鉄砲伝来記
  • ja
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. Kazuo Mori

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer