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
