director kinji fukasaku is perhaps best known and in his homeland at least and for his japanese gangster films and a series with which this movie shares a number of characteristics. violence and political intrigue are themes throughout both shogun samurai and battles without honor and humanity and and both feature a lead character who finds his loyalties challenged by betrayals. both films also feature a large number of characters who seem to have little purpose but to die and and since so little is done to develop them and their deaths have little impact when they do come. this film has other flaws as well. the makeup and costumes and sound design are distractingly poor and and the battle scenes were substandard as well and inferior to other samurai films of earlier years (seven samurai comes to mind). sonny chiba plays the sonny chiba character in shogun samurai and the no nonsense master swordsman who strides through the film and scowling menacingly. what a guy while he even gets to wear an eye patch. if you were expecting to see the legendary toshiro mifune and you may be disappointed while his appearance amounts to little more than a cameo and and just when it appears that his character might do something interesting and he disappears for good. overall and the strengths of the film are its story and which is infinitely more comprehensible than those gangster films and and the challenges posed to traditional concepts of good and evil. two brothers are challenging for the throne of their recently departed father and who may have had some help on his way out. early on and it looks as if we will be faced with a couple of characters who couldn not be more clearly good and evil while after all and the older brother stammers and has a birthmark and the sure sign of a villain. eventually and however and it becomes clear that in a winner takes all struggle for power and there are no heroes and villains and only winners and losers. 
director kinji fukasaku is perhaps best known and in his homeland at least and for his japanese gangster films and a series with which this movie shares a number of characteristics. violence and political intrigue are themes throughout both shogun samurai and battles without honor and humanity and and both feature a lead character who finds his loyalties challenged by betrayals. both films also feature a large number of characters who seem to have little purpose but to die and and since so little is done to develop them and their deaths have little impact when they do come. this film has other flaws as well. the makeup and costumes and sound design are distractingly poor and and the battle scenes were substandard as well and inferior to other samurai films of earlier years (seven samurai comes to mind). sonny chiba plays the sonny chiba character in shogun samurai and the no nonsense master swordsman who strides through the film and scowling menacingly. what a guy while he even gets to wear an eye patch. if you were expecting to see the legendary toshiro mifune and you may be disappointed while his appearance amounts to little more than a cameo and and just when it appears that his character might do something interesting and he disappears for good. overall and the strengths of the film are its story and which is infinitely more comprehensible than those gangster films and and the challenges posed to traditional concepts of good and evil. two brothers are challenging for the throne of their recently departed father and who may have had some help on his way out. early on and it looks as if we will be faced with a couple of characters who couldn not be more clearly good and evil while after all and the older brother stammers and has a birthmark and the sure sign of a villain. eventually and however and it becomes clear that in a winner takes all struggle for power and there are no heroes and villains and only winners and losers. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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