| Warring Clans | |
| Producer: | Tomoyuki Tanaka |
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| Music: | Masaru Sato |
| Cinematography: | Yuzuru Aizawa |
| Studio: | Toho |
| Distributor: | Toho |
| Runtime: | 97 minutes |
| Country: | Japan |
is a 1963 Japanese samurai film directed by Kihachi Okamoto with a screenplay by Okamoto, Takeshi Sano and Shinichi Sekizawa.[1] 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".[2]
A lone masterless warrior with some new friends helps ship 300 rifles to a Japanese warlord during the Sengoku period.
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.