Complete (J-Drama) Fuurin Kazan

Complete (J-Drama) Fuurin Kazan

Title: 風林火山

Title (romaji): Fuurin Kazan / Furin Kazan / Fūrin Kazan

Also known as: Samurai Banners

Episodes: 50

Genre: Taiga drama, period drama

Air time: Sunday, 20:00

Broadcast network: NHK

Broadcast period: 2007, January 07 to 2007, December 16

Synopsis

Drama is a life story of Yamamoto Kansuke, a lonely genius of strategy at the Age of the Civil War in the 16th century. Kansuke works under Takeda Shingen and pursues his dream of unifying the whole country through aiding the warlord of Kai. At the same time, Kansuke supports Shingen's concubine Yu from his selfless affection for the woman who hates but eventually loves the warlord who killed her father and family. With the aid of Kansuke's strategies, Shingen expands his power northward, where he is destined to fight with Kenshin Uesugi, the warlord of Echigo. The drama portrays how those who fight for their dreams face their destinies in the turbulent age.

Cast

Yamamoto Family

Uchino Masaaki as Gensuke (源助)→Obayashi Kansuke→Yamamoto Kansuke (Haruyuki)

Yamauchi Hayate (山内颯) as Gensuke

Ito Takashi (伊藤高) as Yamamoto Sadayuki (father of Kansuke)

Ameku Michiko as Yasu (mother of Kansuke)

Mitsuishi Ken as Toushichi→Yamamoto Sadahisa

Obayashi Family

Sasano Takashi as Obayashi Kanzaemon (foster father of Kansuke)

Mizusawa Aki as Kikuyo (Wife of Kanzaemon)

Kadono Sho (門野翔) as Obayashi Kanbee (Kanzaemon's child)

Takeda Family

Family Members

Ichikawa Kamejiro as Takeda Harunobu → Takeda Shingen

Shibamoto Yuki as Yuu Hime (由布姫)

Ikewaki Chizuru as Sanjo Fujin (三条夫人)

Nakadai Tatsuya as Takeda Nobutora (武田信虎)

Fubuki Jun as Ooi Fujin

Sakurai Sachiko as Nene (禰々)

Kashima Noritoshi (嘉島典俊) as Takeda Nobushige (武田信繁)

Tsuji Kazunaga (辻萬長) as Katsunuma Nobutomo (Nobutora's younger brother)

Fukuda Mayuko as Ume Hime (梅姫)

Hirata Kaoru as Aya Hime (嶺松院)

Kato Seishiro as Takeda Yoshinobu (武田義信)

Takeda Vassal

Chiba Shinichi as Itagaki Nobukata

Asada Miyoko as Hagino

Kaneda Akio as Obu Toramasa

Ryu Raita as Amari Torayasu

Sasaki Kuranosuke as Sanada Yukitaka

Shimizu Misa as Shinome (Yukitaka's wife)

Takahashi Kazuya as Baba Nobuharu (馬場信春)

Tanabe Seiichi as Oyamada Nobuari (小山田信有)

Shishido Kai (宍戸開) as Hara Toratane

Kato Takeshi as Murozumi Torasada

Tanaka Kotaro (田中幸太朗) as Kosaka Masanobu

Terajima Susumu as Akabe Shimomori

Kanno Rio → Maki Yoko as Miru Hime

Warring States Generals

Nagao and the Uesugi Family

Gackt as Uesugi Kenshin

Ichikawa Sadanji as Uesugi Norimasa (上杉憲政)

Nishida Naomi as Sentoin

Imagawa Family

Tanihara Shosuke as Baigaku Shouhou →Imagawa Yoshimoto

Fujimura Shiho as Jukeini (寿桂尼)

Ibu Masato as Taigen Sessai

Ishibashi Renji as Ihara Tadatane (庵原忠胤) (Sessai's older brother), (Kansuke's granduncle)

Segawa Ryo as Ihara Yukimasa (庵原之政) (Sessai's son)

Igawa Tetsuya (井川哲也) as Genko Etan

Terry Ito (テリー伊藤) as Kushima Echizen no Kami

Sakimoto Hiromi as Kushima Hikojuurou (Kushima's son)

Osuga Yuko (大須賀裕子) as Hikojuurou's mother

Hojo House

Matsui Makoto (松井誠) as Hojo Ujiyasu (北条氏康)

Shinagawa Toru as Hojo Ujitsuna

Yokouchi Tadashi (横内正) as Shimizu Yoshimasa

Sakaki Hideo (榊英雄) as Matsuda Shichirozaemon (Makoto's martial arts instructor)

Shinano Clan

Kohinata Fumiyo as Suwa Yorishige

Okamori Akira (岡本諦) as Yazaki Jugoro (Suwa Vassal)

Mizukawa Asami as Hisa (Jugoro's daugther)

Others

Poet

Kameyama Sukekiyo (亀山助清) as Asukai Miyabikyo

Shoji Eiken (庄司永建) as 大井入道宗芸 (Ooi Fujin's father)

Kuzukasa Village

Kanjiya Shihori as Mitsu (Kansuke's girlfriend)

Arizono Yoshiki (有薗芳記) as Densuke → 河原村伝兵衛 (Mitsu's older brother・板垣家臣)

Arima Jiyu (有馬自由) as Takichi → 葛笠太吉

Sato Ryuta as Heizo

Miscellaneous

Takahashi Issei as Komai Masatake

Omori Akemi

Shionoya Masayuki (塩野谷正幸)

Shihodo Wataru (四方堂亘) as Aoki Daizen

Hashimoto Jun as Tokita Takanaga

Maeda Aki as Ritsu (Hara Toratane's daughter)

Yagi Yuki

Shibuya Takeru (ep25)

Taiga (ep37)