A feudal epic presenting the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. The impostor becomes comfortable living his life among nobility, but his responsibilities to his station grow more demanding the longer he occupies it.
Tatsuya Nakadai
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Kenichi Hagiwara
Jinpachi Nezu
Hideji Ōtaki
Daisuke Ryū
Masayuki Yui
Kaori Momoi
Mitsuko Baisho
Hideo Murota
Takayuki Shiho
Kōji Shimizu
Daikei Shimizu
Sen Yamamoto
Shuhei Sugimori
Kota Yui
Yasuhito Yamanaka
Kumeko Otowa
Tetsuo Yamashita
Kai Ato
Takashi Ebata
Yu Shimaka
Toshiaki Tanabe
Naruhito Iguchi
Yoshimitsu Yamaguchi
Eiichi Kanakubo
Akihiko Sugizaki
Yugo Miyazaki
Masatsugu Kuriyama
Norio Matsui
Jirô Chiba
Yasushi Doshida
Takashi Watanabe
Toku Sone
Toshiya Ito
Francis Selleck
Morihiro Yanase
Alexander Kairis
Toshimitsu Kato
Paul Okawa
Toshihiko Shimizu
Senkichi Ōmura
Takashi Shimura
Kamatari Fujiwara
Tokuju Masuda