The Yagyu Code: Secret Scrolls
1990, Japanese. Directed by Toshio Masuda.
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...
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
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Cast & crew
- Toshio MasudaDirector
- Hiroki MatsukataJubei Yagyu
- Nana OkadaKiyohime
- Kozue ItoOki
- Takeshi KitanoCast
- Hiroyuki NagatoHikozaemon Okubo
- Katsuo NakamuraYoshinao Tokugawa
- Kinnosuke NakamuraTajima-no-Kami Yagyu & Fugetsusai Yamada
- Mitsuko KusabueTsubone Kasuga
- Teruhiko AoiIzu-no-Kami Matsudaira
- Tetsuo KurataSenshiro Kasumi
- Shinobu SakagamiIemitsu Tokugawa
- Ryu KanoMatajuro Yagyu
Details
- Released
- 1 January 1990
- Original title
- 柳生武芸帳
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Norifumi Suzuki, Seiko Shimura
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Who directed The Yagyu Code: Secret Scrolls?
The Yagyu Code: Secret Scrolls (1990) was directed by Toshio Masuda and stars Hiroki Matsukata, Nana Okada, Kozue Ito.