
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife as a concubine. He then convinces the widow, Princess Yu, to accept this arrangement and to bear Takeda a son. He pledges them his life. He then spends years using treachery, poetic sensibility, military and political strategy to expand Takeda's realm, advance the claim of Yu's son as the heir, and prepare for an ultimate battle with the forces of Echigo. Has Kansuke overreached? Are his dreams, blinded by love, too big?

as Kansuke Yamamoto

as Princess Yufu

as Shingen Takeda

as Kenshin Uesugi

as Nobusato Itagaki

as Hagiwara Yaemon

as Nobushige Takeda

as Takeda Katsuyori

as Hatanaka Buhei

as Princess Okoto

as Buhei's wife




as Suwa Yorishige





as Takada Noriyori



as Toda Awaji


as Nagasaka Yorihiro


as Murakami Yoshikiyo


as Obu Toramasa

as Kasahara Kiyoshige

as Nobukato Itagaki