is a 1963 Japanese jidaigeki

Jidaigeki

is a genre of film, television, and theatre in Japan. The name means "period drama" and is usually the Edo period of Japanese history, from 1603 to 1868. Some, however, are set much earlier—Portrait of Hell, for example, is set during the late Heian period—and the early Meiji era is also a popular...

period black comedy

Black comedy

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 adventure film

Adventure film

Adventure films are a genre of film.Unlike pure, low-budget action films they often use their action scenes preferably to display and explore exotic locations in an energetic way....

 directed by Kihachi Okamoto

Kihachi Okamoto

was a Japanese film director who has worked in several different genres, including jidaigeki.-Career:Born in Yonago, Okamoto attended Meiji University, but was drafted in 1943 and entered World War II during its most difficult hours, an experience that had a profound effect on his later film work,...

, co-written by Shinichi Sekizawa

Shinichi Sekizawa

was a Japanese screenwriter. His very first screenplay was for the Shintoho Studios film Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers, which is now considered to be lost. He went on to script several films by Ishirō Honda, including several classic Godzilla films...

 and starring Yūzō Kayama

Yuzo Kayama

is a Japanese popular musician and film star, born on 11 April 1937. His father, Ken Uehara, was a film star during the 1930s. Yuzo Kayama became a big star in the 1960s in the Wakadaishō film series....

. Masaru Satō

Masaru Sato

was a Japanese composer of film scores. He was born in Rumoi, Hokkaidō and raised in Sapporo. While studying at the National Music Academy, Sato came under the influence of Fumio Hayasaka, Akira Kurosawa's regular composer for his earlier films. He became a pupil of Hayasaka's, studying film...

 composed the music for the film. It is known in the English version as Warring Clans.

The film also starred Ichirō Nakatani, Makoto Sato

Makoto Satō

Makoto Satō was a Japanese documentary film director. Among his best-known films were Living On the River Agano and Self and Others....

, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Jun Tazaki, Yuriko Hoshi, Tadao Nakamaru, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Kumi Mizuno, Hideyo Amamoto

Hideyo Amamoto

was a prolific Japanese actor from the Wakamatsu ward of Kitakyūshū best known for portraying Dr. Shinigami in the original Kamen Rider series as well as many other characters in tokusatsu films and the Godzilla series. Amamoto also used the pseudonym of Eisei Amamoto for most of his career, Eisei...

 (as Eisei Amamoto), Yutaka Nakayama, Masanari Nihei

Masanari Nihei

Masanari Nihei is a Japanese actor. He was born in Tokyo, Japan.-Movie:* 1962 - Gorath* 1965 - Samurai* 1970 - Dodesukaden* 1977 - Shirauo* 1996 - Revive! Ultraman* 1996,97 - Ultraman Zearth...

 (as Masanori Nihei), Yoshifumi Tajima

Yoshifumi Tajima

Yoshifumi Tajima was an actor in Japanese Kaijū films, best known for his role as Kumayama in Mothra vs. Godzilla. He was born in Kobe, Japan.- Filmography :...

, Kazuo Suzuki, Ren Yamamoto, Naoya Kusakawa and Ikio Sawamura.

A widescreen

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 home version of the film was released on DVD

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 in Japan in 2006.

Japanese cinema specialist David Desser called the film "eccentric

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