

The first installment of this thrilling period drama special starring Matsukata Hiroki. Jubei fights to the death to protect the targeted Yagyu martial arts register. Set in the Edo period, shortly after Iemitsu became the third shogun, rumors spread within the shogunate that the register of the Yagyu family, the shogun's instructors, contained a secret that could threaten the very foundations of the shogunate. Jubei, the eldest son of the Yagyu family, asks his father, Tajima-no-kami, about the secret, but he remains silent and refuses to reveal anything. Meanwhile, Jubei, who is repeatedly engaged in battles with a mysterious ninja group for the register, learns an unexpected truth...
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Cast

Hiroki Matsukata
Jubei Yagyu
Nana Okada
Kiyohime
Kozue Ito
Oki

Takeshi Kitano

Hiroyuki Nagato
Hikozaemon Okubo
Katsuo Nakamura
Yoshinao Tokugawa

Kinnosuke Nakamura
Tajima-no-Kami Yagyu & Fugetsusai Yamada

Mitsuko Kusabue
Tsubone Kasuga

Teruhiko Aoi
Izu-no-Kami Matsudaira

Tetsuo Kurata
Senshiro Kasumi

Shinobu Sakagami
Iemitsu Tokugawa

Ryu Kano
Matajuro Yagyu
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