Shogun's Samurai

Shogun's Samurai
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Kinji Fukasaku
Written by	Kinji Fukasaku Tatsuo Nogami Hirō Matsuda
Starring	Kinnosuke Yorozuya Shinichi Chiba Hiroki Matsukata
Cinematography	Norimichi Ikawa
Music by	Toshiaki Tsushima
Production company	Toei Company
Distributed by	Toei Company
Release date	January 21, 1978 (1978-01-21)
Running time	130 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Shogun's Samurai, known in Japan as The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy (Japanese: 柳生一族の陰謀, Hepburn: Yagyū Ichizoku no Inbō), is a 1978 Japanese historical martial arts period film directed and co-written by Kinji Fukasaku.^[1] The film is the first of two unrelated Fukasaku films to star Shinichi "Sonny" Chiba as Jūbei Mitsuyoshi Yagyū, the other being Samurai Reincarnation.

The film was adapted into a 39-episode TV series, The Yagyu Conspiracy (1978–1979), and two TV film remakes were released in 2008 and 2020.