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3	'''The Three Treasures''' (日本誕生 Nippon Tanjō, lit. ''Birth of Japan'') is a 1959 film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki. An EpicMovie featuring an AllStarCast of some of Creator/{{Toho}}'s biggest names, including Creator/ToshiroMifune, Creator/KyokoKagawa, Creator/TakashiShimura, Creator/SetsukoHara and Creator/AkiraTakarada, this film tells the story of the legendary Prince Yamato Takeru (Mifune), who, after strangling his brother, and letting everyone believe that he killed him, is sent on various missions and begins to suspect that his father wants him dead.
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5	The film is interwoven with tales from Myth/JapaneseMythology, featuring Susanoo (Mifune again), the god of storms.
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7	!!This film provides examples of:
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9	* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: The film goes into more depth of the cause of Susanoo's bad behaviour: he had [[FreudianExcuse Daddy Issues]] and sorely missed his mother, Izanami, who resided in the underworld.
10	* AdaptationalHeroism: In the legend, Yamato Takeru really did kill his brother. In this film, it was one of his other brothers who killed him after Yamato Takeru spared him.
11	* AndYouWereThere: Both Yamato Takeru and Susanoo are played by Creator/ToshiroMifune, showing that Yamato Takeru sees himself as Susanoo, for worse and for better.
12	* AnnoyingArrows: [[spoiler: How Yamato Takeru dies]]
13	* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: Ototachibana breaks up with Yamato Takeru because she's celibate and fears the wrath of the gods if she loves a man, but she tells him that she hates him instead.
14	* CoolSword: One of the three treasures is Murakumo, the sword that Susanoo used to defeat {{Orochi}}.
15	* DamselInDistress: Princess Kushinada, whom Susanoo turns into a comb to prevent her from being sacrificed to the serpent {{Orochi}}.
16	* DirtyCoward: Yahara, who betrays his prince.
17	* DisguisedInDrag: How Yamato Takeru infiltrates the Kumaso brothers' palace.
18	* EpicMovie: A sprawling epic on a massive scale, compared to the filmmaking of Cecil B. [=DeMille=].
19	* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Susanoo mourns deeply for his mother Izanami, even when he is a grown man.
20	* FauxAffablyEvil: Kurohiko, who acts politely towards Yamato Takeru before trying to kill him.
21	* GodivaHair: Izanami has hair constantly draped over her naked breasts.
22	* HeelFaceTurn: Offscreen, Susanoo goes from an unruly troublemaker to a brave and principled hero.
23	* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler: Yamato Takeru is wounded and then shot by archers]]
24	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Ototachibana, after she angers Susanoo by losing her virginity. Later the remaining men loyal to Yamato Takeru form a human shield to save him and are pierced by arrows.]]
25	* HeroWithBadPublicity: Outside of Yamato, everyone fears Yamato Takeru.
26	-->'''Yamato Takeru''': I don't blame you. I am feared everywhere. Everyone hides when I approach.
27	* HotBlooded: Both Yamato Takeru and Susanoo.
28	* LaserGuidedKarma: The men who ambush the prince and those loyal to him are either burned alive by lava or drowned by a tidal wave, as a punishment from [[spoiler: the soul of Yamato Takeru, in the form of a bird]].
29	* LoveTriangle: Yamato Takeru, Ototachibana and Miyazu.
30	* MissingMom: Izanami, who died giving birth to Susanoo. Prince Yamato Takeru's mother also died in childbirth.
31	* OcularGushers: Inverted. Susanoo, god of the sea and storms, cries so hard for his dead mother and the lack of love from his distant father that he ''drains'' the world of water.
32	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Yamato Takeru is a WarriorPrince who is generous enough to provide food for his own people.
33	* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Miyazu gives Yamato Takeru poisoned sake, but regrets it after finding out what a good man he is. He lives, however.
34	* UptownGirl: Yakumo, a soldier of the Emperor, is a gender-inversion to Azami, a peasant girl.
35	* WellDoneSonGuy: Yamato Takeru is so eager to please his father that he travels to the world and back to try and earn his love. The very reason he almost kills his brother is to protect his father's honor. His other brothers use this to their advantage so they can ambush and kill him in the climax.
36	-->'''Yamato Takeru''': I must obey his father and thank him for having faith in me!
37	* WorthyOpponent: Kumaso Takeru is so desperate to die by one that when he is defeated, he gives Yamato Takeru his name.

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