Starring role •
Shun Oguri as
Hōjō Yoshitoki. Kōki Mitani pointed out some similarities between him and
Michael Corleone.
Hōjō clan •
Eiko Koike as
Hōjō Masako, Yoshitoki's older sister • Bandō Yajūrō as
Hōjō Tokimasa, Yoshitoki's father •
Rie Miyazawa as Maki no Kata, a.k.a. Riku, Yoshitoki's stepmother •
Kataoka Ainosuke VI as Hōjō Munetoki, Yoshitoki's older brother •
Emma Miyazawa as Awa no Tsubone, a.k.a. Mii, Yoshitoki's younger sister •
Kentaro Sakaguchi as
Hōjō Yasutoki, Yoshitoki and Yae's son • Yurito Mori as Kongō (young Yasutoki) • Momoko Fukuchi as Hatsu, Yasutoki's wife •
Kōji Seto as
Hōjō Tokifusa, Yoshitoki's younger brother •
Mayu Hotta as Hina, a.k.a. Hime no Mae, Yoshitoki's second wife • Takeru Nishimoto (Super Size Me) as Hōjō Tomotoki, Yoshitoki and Hina's son •
Rinko Kikuchi as Noe, a.k.a. Iga no Kata, Yoshitoki's third wife • Taisuke Niihara as
Hōjō Masamura, Yoshitoki and Noe's son • Tsubasa Nakagawa as Hōjō Masanori, Yoshitoki's half-brother •
Rikako Yagi as Kiku, Yoshitoki's half-sister •
Ichika Osaki as Aki, Yoshitoki's half-sister • Masaki Murakami as Inage Shigenari, Aki's husband • Hiroyuki Takagishi (Timon D) as
Nitta Tadatsune • Kizuki as Tsurumaru (later known as Taira no Moritsuna) • Haruto Satō as young Tsurumaru • Takashi Yamanaka as Hiraga Tomomasa
Minamoto clan •
Yo Oizumi as
Minamoto no Yoritomo, Masako's husband and the first shogun of the
Kamakura shogunate. •
Masaki Suda as
Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Yoritomo's younger brother • Sō Kaku as
Benkei •
Shizuka Ishibashi as
Shizuka Gozen, Yoshitsune's mistress •
Tōko Miura as Sato, Yoshitsune's wife •
Daichi Kaneko as
Minamoto no Yoriie, the second shogun • Sōma Torigoe as Manju (young Yoriie) • Kana Kita as Tsutsuji, Yoriie's wife •
Kasumi Yamaya as Setsu, a.k.a. Lady Wakasa, Yoriie's concubine • Sōta Aizawa as
Ichiman • Hayato Kakizawa as
Minamoto no Sanetomo, the third shogun • Kiara Minegishi as Senman (young Sanetomo) •
Konatsu Kato as Chiyo, Sanetomo's wife •
Sara Minami as Ōhime • Miyuko Ochii as young Ōhime • Yuno Ōta as Sanman •
Kanichiro as
Kōgyō, commonly known as Kugyō. • Rinto Takahira as Zenzai (young Kōgyō, around 10 years old) • Tsubasa Nagao as Zenzai (young Kōgyō, around 5 years old) • Takaya Sakoda as
Minamoto no Noriyori • Shin'ya Niiro as Ano Zenjō • Kaito Kobayashi as Ano Raizen • Yūsaku Mori as Ano Tokimoto •
Tetta Sugimoto as
Minamoto no Yukiie •
Noriko Eguchi as Kame • Songha as Gien ;Shinano •
Munetaka Aoki as
Kiso Yoshinaka • Ichikawa Somegorō VIII as Kiso Yoshitaka •
Sayaka Akimoto as
Tomoe Gozen • Yū Machida as
Imai Kanehira ;Kai •
Norito Yashima as
Takeda Nobuyoshi • Kou Maehara as
Ichijō Tadayori The 13 lords of the Shogun (other than Yoshitoki and Tokimasa) •
Jiro Sato as
Hiki Yoshikazu •
Nakamura Shidō II as
Kajiwara Kagetoki • Yoshihiro Nozoe as
Adachi Morinaga • Eiji Yokota as
Wada Yoshimori • Hideo Kurihara as
Ōe no Hiromoto • Takashi Kobayashi as Miyoshi Yasunobu •
Hayato Ichihara as Hatta Tomoie • Yasuhiro Ōno as Adachi Tōmoto • Jun'ya Kawashima as
Nakahara no Chikayoshi • Isao Nonaka as Nikaidō Yukimasa • B-saku Satō as Miura Yoshizumi, Yoshimura's father
Other eastern samurai and their families ;Sagami •
Koji Yamamoto as Miura Yoshimura • Tatsuya Kishida as Miura Taneyoshi • Taiga Komie as Komawaka-maru (later known as Miura Mitsumura) •
Jun Kunimura as
Ōba Kagechika •
Kenji Anan as Doi Sanehira • Makiya Yamaguchi as Yamanouchisudō Tsunetoshi • Taka Takao as Okazaki Yoshizane • Suon Kan as
Sasaki Hideyoshi • Takahiro Kimata as Sasaki Sadatsuna • Hiroki Ezawa as Sasaki Tsunetaka • Kazuya Masuda as Sasaki Moritsuna • Tsuyoshi Mitera as
Sasaki Takatsuna •
Hiroaki Hirata as Satake Yoshimasa • Reiya Masaki as
Kajiwara Kagesue • Eishin as
Asahina Yoshihide • Masaki Naitō as Wada Yoshinao • Yūdai Hayashi as Wada Yoshishige • Gaku Hosokawa as Wada Tanenaga ;Izu • Kazuyuki Asano as Itō Sukechika •
Terunosuke Takezai as Itō Sukekiyo •
Yui Aragaki as Yae, Yoritomo's first wife and Yoshitoki's first wife. • Keisei Ōta as Sentsurumaru •
Zen Kajihara as Zenji, an assassin •
Chihiro Yamamoto as Tō • Airi Takahashi as young Tō • Yoshiyuki Tsubokura (Wagaya) as
Kudō Suketsune • Takato Yonemoto as
Kudō Shigemitsu • Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi as
Kawazu Sukeyasu • Kazuya Tanabe as
Soga Jūrō • Eishi Ōfuji as Ichiman (young Jūrō) • Shunsuke Tanaka as
Soga Gorō • Kōki Kagaya as Hako'ō (young Gorō) • Tateto Serizawa as Ema Jirō, Yae's second husband • Kazutoyo Yoshimi as Tsusumi Nobutō • Takuma Nagao as Tōnai Mitsuzumi ;Musashi •
Taishi Nakagawa as
Hatakeyama Shigetada •
Mei Fukuda as Chie, Yoshitoki's half-sister and Shigetada's wife. • Rairu Sugita as
Hatakeyama Shigeyasu • Keiko Horiuchi as Michi •
Mitsuko Kusabue as Hiki no Ama • Eiki Narita as Hiki Tokikazu • Kaito as Hiki Munetomo ;Bōsō •
Kōichi Satō as Kazusa Hirotsune • Nobuto Okamoto as Chiba Tsunetane ;Awa •
Manabu Ino as Anzai Kagemasu • Kōji Kurosawa as Nagasa Tsunetomo • Manabu Takeuchi (Kaminari) as Gonzō ;Others • Atsushi Nakamura as Oyama Tomomasa • Nao Takahashi as Yūki Tomomitsu • Shin Shimizu as Naganuma Munemasa • Motohiro Niina as
Adachi Kagemori • Eriko Aube as Yū • Ayumu as Nakano Yoshinari • Naritada Nishimura as
Ogasawara Nagatsune The imperial court •
Toshiyuki Nishida as
Emperor Go-Shirakawa, the 77th emperor of Japan • Onoe Matsuya II as
Emperor Go-Toba, who initiated the
Jōkyū War • Rihito Kikui as young Emperor Go-Toba •
Toma Ikuta as Minamoto no Nakaakira •
Kyōka Suzuki as Tango no Tsubone •
Toshihiro Yashiba as Taira no Tomoyasu • Hajime Yamazaki as Maki Munechika •
Subaru Kimura as
Prince Mochihito • Tōru Shinagawa as
Minamoto no Yorimasa • Chisa Aizawa as
Emperor Antoku • Mitsunojō Itō as toddler Emperor Antoku • Takeharu Morimoto as Nakahara no Tomochika •
Naoki Tanaka as
Kujō Kanezane •
Kazunari Murakami as Tosanobō Shōshun •
Tomokazu Seki as
Tsuchimikado Michichika • Sylvia Grab as Fujiwara no Kaneko • Yūya Kido as Ichijō Takayoshi • Tomoya Hoshi as Fujiwara no Hideyasu • Myung-joo Inoue as Minamoto no Yorimochi • Iori Koshida as
Mitora Taira clan •
Ken Matsudaira as
Taira no Kiyomori • Kyōko Ōtani as
Taira no Tokiko •
Kotaro Koizumi as
Taira no Munemori •
Shogo Hama as
Taira no Koremori • Kano Ichiki as "Kenshunmon-in" Shigeko • Kaishi Iwao as
Taira no Tomomori • Yūto Shimada as Taira no Kiyomune
Northern Fujiwara •
Min Tanaka as
Fujiwara no Hidehira • Yūsuke Hirayama as Fujiwara no Kunihira • Hiroshi Yamamoto as
Fujiwara no Yasuhira • Mayumi Amano as Toku • Jun'ichi Kawanami as Fujiwara no Yorihira • Hiroshi Kobayashi as Kawada Jirō
Others •
Ichikawa Ennosuke IV as
Mongaku • Tarō Suwa as Mon'yōbō Kakuen •
Kazuyuki Aijima as
Unkei •
Kenichi Ogata as the chief priest of
Ganjōju-in. •
Koichi Yamadera as
Jien • Gene L. Zheng as Chen Heqing, a.k.a. Chin Nakei • Shihō Harumi as a doctor •
Shinobu Otake as a
Miko •
Sayaka Isoyama as Satsuki •
Jun Matsumoto as
Tokugawa Ieyasu ==TV schedule==