Film · Drama, Action, Adventure, History, TV Movie
Kanei Chronicles (1991)
From all over Japan, the greatest warriors: Yagyu Jubei, Miyamoto Musashi, Araki Mataemon, and more came to test their blades in a tournament of swords. But behind the match a bloodthirsty plot is born. Tokugawa Yorinobu, a corrupt shogunate official plans to assassinate Shogun Iemitsu and take his place. With scheming samurai Yui Shosetsu and ruthless Negoro ninja leader Genyusai, he plans to incite a ronin uprising and cut a bloody trail across Japan, with terrifying Chinese gunboats to back his play. Matsudaira Izu-no-kami, councilor and friend to the shogun, along with master swordsman Yagyu Jubei and ninja master Hanzo Hattori must stop Yui Shosetsu and his army of ronin and ninja assassins from tearing the country in half and taking over the government!
- Director
- Kōsei Saitō
- Writers
- Renzaburō Shibata, Satoshi Kurumi, Ei Ogawa
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Release date
- July 19, 1991
- Original title
- 寛永風雲録
Cast
Kōtarō SatomiIzunokami Nobutsuna Matsudaira
Takaaki EnokiChuya Marubashi
Yumi TakigawaSawa
Misa ShimizuPrincess Kichi
Jun MihoYae
Shōhei HinoKarasu no Jinnai
Renji IshibashiGenyusai Negoro
Kazunaga TsujiHanzo Hattori
Tappei ShimokawaKokuseki Yamazaki- Katsumi OyamaShinzaemon Suetsugu
Masao ImafukuHikozaemon Okubo
Morio KazamaSuruga Dainagon Tadanaga
Raita RyuChobei Banzuiin
Gō IbukiMataemon Araki
Ryô KinomotoKojiro Sasaki- Nobuo KawaiBingo Mimtakino
Seiichirō KameishiShimei Teii
Akira NakaoYorinobu Tokugawa
Toru MinegishiIemitsu Tokugawa
Isao NatsuyagiMusashi Miyamoto
