The Yagyu Conspiracy
The Yagyu Conspiracy is a Japanese television jidaigeki that was broadcast from 1978 to 1979. It is adapted from the 1978 film Shogun's Samurai starring Sonny Chiba, who reprises his role in the series.
Plot
After the death of Tokugawa Hidetada, his sons Tokugawa Iemitsu and Tokugawa Tadanaga begin to fight over the inheritance. The Yagyu clan of Edo, led by Yagyū Munenori, supports Iemitsu, and Iemitsu is eventually appointed the third shogun. However, Nobutsuna Matsudaira fears the Yagyu clan and tries to prevent them from gaining power. On the other hand, Shōshō Ayamaro Karasuma, who tried to divide the Tokugawa shogunate due to the conflict between Iemitsu and Tadanaga, has not given up that hope.Anti-shogunate factions and forces appear one after another and challenge the Tokugawa shogunate. Yagyu Jubei and his subordinates defeat the enemies of the shogunate one by one as ordered by Nobutsuna Matsudaira and Yagyu Munenori, but Jubei gradually begins to question the policies of the Tokugawa shogunate.
Cast
- Shinichi Chiba as Jūbei Mitsuyoshi Yagyū
- So Yamamura as Tajima-no-kami Munenori Yagyū
- Etsuko Shihomi as Akane Yagyū
- Yūki Meguro as Samon Tomonori Yagyū
- Hiroyuki Sanada as Sasuke
- Mikio Narita as Shōshō Ayamaro Karasuma
- Ryo Tamura as Iemitsu Tokugawa
- Etsushi Takahashi as Izu-no-kami Nobutsuna Matsudaira
- Jirō Yabuki as Fuchikari
- Seizō Fukumoto as Kitano
- Yumi Takigawa as Okuni
- Asao Koike as Negoro Sagenta
- Toshio Takahara as Kujō Michifusa
- Junichi Haruta as Hayate
- Shingo Yamashiro as Sanjonishi Saneeda
- Ken Nishida as Tokugawa Tadanaga
- Michiyo Kogure as Oeyo
- Kōji Nanbara as Ogasawara Nagaharu
- Gajirō Satō as Kakuno Hikosaburō
- Fumio Watanabe as Sakai Tadatomo
- Mariko Okada as Lady Kasuga