Shogun's Samurai
柳生一族の陰謀
Watch shogun's samurai soap2day. 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.
- Genre: Action, Drama, Adventure
- Country: Japan
- Director: Kinji Fukasaku
- Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura, Sonny Chiba, Hiroki Matsukata, Teruhiko Saigō, Reiko Ōhara, Yoshio Harada, Isao Natsuyagi, Mikio Narita, Toshirō Mifune, Hiroyuki Sanada, Etsuko Shihomi, Kentaro Kudo, Jirô Chiba, Hideo Murota, Mayumi Asano, Ichirō Nakatani, Tetsuro Tamba, Etsushi Takahashi, Sanae Nakahara, Nobuo Kaneko, Shinsuke Ashida,
