Mesumi Kenji again
His last film "The Last Samurai" very underrated too shame The Tom Cruise movie had to use the name too. It's basically the JP equivalent of the big 2 hour western epics they used to make in the 60s and 70s.
Sadly it can be kinda hard to find. I don't think it's ever gotten an HD release and it was barely distributed outside of Japan and EU.