Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and birthmark which undermine his respect. Iemitsu and his brother Tadanaga become bitter rivals for the shogunate, and the land is split into factions, eventually erupting into warfare. Iemitsu’s mentor, his fencing instructor Yagyu, is fixated upon securing Iemitsu the shogunate and ends up betraying everyone, even his own family, in pursuit of the goal.
Length 130 minutes
Sonny Chiba | Toshirō Mifune | Hiroyuki Sanada | Tetsurō Tamba | Isuzu Yamada | Nobuo Kaneko | Kinnosuke Nakamura | Shinsuke Ashida | Harumi Sone | Nenji Kobayashi | Yoshio Harada | Mikio Narita | Etsushi Takahashi | Sen Yano | Ichirô Nakatani | Hideo Murota | Etsuko Shihomi | Sanae Nakahara | Reiko Ôhara | Hiroki Matsukata | Isao Natsuyagi | Seizô Fukumoto | Teruhiko Saigô | Kentaro Kudo | Jirô Chiba | Mayumi Asano