Title: 風林火山 Title (romaji): Fuurin Kazan / Furin Kazan / Fūrin Kazan Also known as: Samurai Banners Episodes: 50 Genre: Taiga drama Viewership ratings: ep1=21.0 high=22.9 avg=18.7 (all Kanto #s) Air time: Sunday, 20:00 Broadcast network: NHK Broadcast period: 2007-Jan-7 to 2007-Dec-16
Synopsis The 46th Historical 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)