Warring Clans

Warring Clans (戦国野郎) 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

 * Yūzō Kayama as Ochi
 * Makoto Satō as Kinoshita Tokichiro
 * Yuriko Hoshi as Sagiri
 * Kumi Mizuno as Lady Taki
 * Hiroshi Hasegawa as Hachisuka Koroku
 * Jun Tazaki as Ariyoshi Sosuke
 * Ichirō Nakatani as Doshi Harima

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.