Heaven and Earth (1990 film)

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Set in feudal Japan, the daimyō Kagetora (Enoki) obtain power from the shogun and rules the province of Echigo, but he must protect his lands and his people from the ambitions of the warlord Takeda Shingen (Tsugawa), the daimyo of Kai province who started his invasion of Shinano province.

Kagetora is also known as Uesugi Kenshin. In the film, Kagetora must defend his province of Echigo against Takeda Shingen. The famous battles include the Battle of Kawanakajima.

From the beginning the Takeda army seems to be stronger, but due to Kagetora’s tactics, he manages to win a few minor battles and to kill Nobushige, Shingen’s brother, and Kansuke, one of Shingen’s trusted men.

In the final battle, Takeda and Kagetora start a face to face duel with swords and Kagetora hurts Takeda, winning the battle of Kawanakajima in october 1561.

• Takaaki Enoki as Uesugi Kenshin
• Masahiko Tsugawa as Takeda Shingen
• Atsuko Asano as Nami
• Naomi Zaizen as Yae
• Hironobu Nomura as Takeda "Tarō" Yoshinobu
• Taro Ishida as Takeda Nobushige
• Binpachi Itō as Kakizaki Kageie
• Akira Hamada as Naoe Kagetsuna
• Hiroyuki Okita as Kōsaka Danjō
• Hideo Murota as Obu Toramasa
• Isao Natsuyagi as Yamamoto Kansuke
• Tsunehiko Watase as Usami Sadayuki
• Morio Kazama
• Masatō Ibu
• Kyōko Kishida
• Hideji Ōtaki
• Tomomichi Nishimura as Narrator

Heaven and Earth was the most expensive Japanese production at the time with a budget of $40 million. The film was shot largely in Canada and was in production for a year and featured 1,000 horses and 3,000 extras.{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|date=August 15, 1990|page=39|last=Fleming|first=Charles|title=Kadokawa's samurai pic heavenly at B.O.}}

The shooting in Canada was just outside of Banff, Alberta in an area known as Morley Flats.

In Japan, Heaven and Earth had sold {{nowrap|4.8 million}} tickets in pre-sales prior to release.{{cite web |title=Kadokawa Haruki |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kadokawa_haruki |website=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction |date=5 August 2020 |access-date=13 April 2022}} It opened on 23 June 1990 on 215 screens in Japan and grossed $8.4 million, one of the largest openings in Japan at the time. It became the number-one Japanese film on the domestic market in 1990, earning ¥5.05 billion in distributor rental income{{cite web|url=http://www.eiren.org/toukei/1990.html|title=Kako haikyū shūnyū jōi sakuhin 1990-nen|publisher=Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan|language=Japanese|accessdate=5 February 2011}} and {{¥|9.2 billion}} in gross receipts.{{cite web |title=歴代ランキング |trans-title=All-time box office top 100 |url=http://www.kogyotsushin.com/archives/alltime/ |website=CINEMAランキング通信 |publisher=Kogyo Tsushinka |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120610221935/http://www.kogyotsushin.com/archives/alltime/ |archivedate=2012-06-10 |accessdate=23 May 2020}} In the United States, the film grossed $307,775.{{cite web |title=Битва самураев (Ten to Chi to, 1990) |url=https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/94268/ |website=Kinopoisk |access-date=20 March 2022}}

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Category:1990 films

Category:1990s historical adventure films

Category:1990s Japanese-language films

Category:Jidaigeki films

Category:1990s samurai films

Category:Films with screenplays by James Miki

Category:Toei Company films

Category:War epic films

Category:Cultural depictions of Uesugi Kenshin

Category:Cultural depictions of Takeda Shingen

Category:1990s English-language films

Category:1990s Japanese films

Category:Films set in 16th-century Sengoku period

Category:English-language action films

Category:English-language historical adventure films

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