The Yagyu Code: Secret Scrolls (1990)
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...
Director:
Toshio Masuda
Writers:
Norifumi Suzuki, Seiko Shimura.
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Hiroki Matsukata as Jubei Yagyu |
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Nana Okada as Kiyohime |
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Kozue Ito as Oki |
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Takeshi Kitano as |
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Hiroyuki Nagato as Hikozaemon Okubo |
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Katsuo Nakamura as Yoshinao Tokugawa |
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Kinnosuke Nakamura as Tajima-no-Kami Yagyu & Fugetsusai Yamada |
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Mitsuko Kusabue as Tsubone Kasuga |
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Teruhiko Aoi as Izu-no-Kami Matsudaira |
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Tetsuo Kurata as Senshiro Kasumi |
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Shinobu Sakagami as Iemitsu Tokugawa |
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Ryu Kano as Matajuro Yagyu |
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Mai Shirato as Agemaki |
| Directing | Toshio Masuda | Director |
| Writing | Norifumi Suzuki | Screenplay |
| Writing | Seiko Shimura | Screenplay |
| Sound | Seiji Yokoyama | Music |