Dokuganryū Masamune

Plot

The drama takes place during the late Sengoku and early Edo periods.

It chronicles the life of Date Masamune, from before his birth until his death.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan in 1590, but Date Masamune did not abandon his ambition to rule the nation at every possible opportunity.

Production

Original – Sōhachi Yamaoka

Music – Shin’ichirō Ikebe

Historical research – Keizō Suzuki

Sword fight arranger - Kunishirō Hayashi

Supervisor - Yasumune Date

Cast

Starring role

Ken Watanabe as Date Masamune, the one-eyed dragon

Ryota Fujima (later Fujima Kanjuro VIII) as Bontenmaru (child Masamune)

Eiji Shima as Tojiro (pre-teen Masamune)

Date clan

Kin'ya Kitaōji as Date Terumune, Masamune's father

Shima Iwashita as Yoshihime, Masamune's mother

Junko Sakurada as Megohime (adult), Masamune's wife

Kumiko Goto as Megohime (teenager)

Tomokazu Miura as Date Shigezane, Masamune's cousin

Raita Ryū as Date Sanemoto, Shigezane's father

Teruhiko Saigō as Katakura Kojūrō, Masamune's most trusted vassal

Keiko Takeshita as Katakura Kita, Kojūrō's half-sister

Mikiko Otonashi as Tsuta, Kojūrō's wife

Kenichi Okamoto as Date Kojirō, Masamune's younger brother

Kumiko Akiyoshi as Iizaka no Tsubone, also known as Neko Gozen

Yasuko Sawaguchi as Iroha, Masamune's first daughter

Chosuke Ikariya as Oniniwa Sagetsu

Takehiro Murata Oniniwa Tsunamoto

Shigeru Kōyama as Endō Motonobu

Kyōzō Nagatsuka as Rusu Masakage

Mitsuru Hirata as Suzuki Motonobu

Minori Terada as Ōuchi Sadatsuna

Machiko Washio as Ochako

Mogami clan

Yoshio Harada as Mogami Yoshiaki

Imafuku Masao as Mogami Yoshimori

Kaori Sakagami as Komahime, Yoshiaki's second daughter

Toyotomi clan

Shintaro Katsu as Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the ruler of Japan

Kaoru Yachigusa as Nene

Kanako Higuchi as Yodo-dono, Hideyori's mother

Eiji Okuda as Ishida Mitsunari

Kisuke Yamashita as Toyotomi Hideyori, Hideyoshi's son

Maiko Itō as Senhime

Yoichi Hayashi as Asano Nagamasa

Takanori Jinnai as Toyotomi Hidetsugu

Yumiko Nogawa as Asahi no kata

Takaaki Enoki as Ōno Harunaga

Minoru Ōki as Maeda Toshiie

Ken Teraizumi as Gamō Ujisato

Gō Wakabayashi as Sanada Yukimura

Tatsuo Matsumura as Katagiri Katsumoto

Nobuyuki Katsube as Gotō Matabei

Makoto Yuasa as Maeda Gen'i

Tokugawa clan

Masahiko Tsugawa as Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate

Hiroyuki Sanada as Matsudaira Tadateru, Iroha's husband

Hiroshi Katsuno as Tokugawa Hidetada

Shin Takuma as Tokugawa Iemitsu

Junichi Nitta as Yūki Hideyasu

Renji Ishibashi as Yagyū Munenori

Tamura clan

Akira Kubo as Tamura Kiyoaki, Megohime's father

Isao Yamagata as Mukaidate Takumi

Others

Hideji Ōtaki as Kosai Sōitsu

Ryūnosuke Kaneda as Ōkubo Nagayasu

Ryō Ikebe as Sen no Rikyū

Kei Tani as Imai Sōkun

José Cardini as Luis Sotelo

Joe Grace as Sebastián Vizcaíno

Gentarō Ishida as Hatakeyama Yoshitsugu

Hiroshi Arikawa as Shinjō Danjō

Shinichi Tsutsumi as Ashina Yoshihiro

Ryūzaburō Ōtomo as Kubota Jūrō

Shin Aomori as Furukawa Danjō