Samurai Saga

Name: Samurai Saga
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Genre: Action, Drama
Released: 1959-04-28
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Toshirō Mifune, Yōko Tsukasa, Akira Takarada, Keiko Awaji, Seizaburō Kawazu

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.