===
Taira clan (Heike)=== •
Kenichi Matsuyama as
Taira no Kiyomori, a military leader of the late
Heian period of
Japan • Ōshirō Maeda as young Kiyomori •
Kiichi Nakai as
Taira no Tadamori, the father of
Taira no Kiyomori •
Atsuo Nakamura as
Taira no Masamori •
Kōsuke Toyohara as
Taira no Tadamasa •
Nakamura Baijaku II as
Taira no Iesada •
Kyoko Fukada as
Taira no Tokiko, Kiyomori's wife •
Ai Kato as Takashina no Akiko •
Takaya Kamikawa as
Taira no Morikuni •
Go Morita as
Taira no Tokitada •
Takahiro Fujimoto as
Itō Tadakiyo •
Shunsuke Daito as
Taira no Iemori •
Takahiro Nishijima as
Taira no Yorimori •
Masataka Kubota as
Taira no Shigemori • Takuma Hiraoka as young Shigemori •
Hideo Ishiguro as
Taira no Munemori •
Takuya Kusakawa as young Munemori •
Koji Kato as Usagimaru •
Mahiro Takasugi as Kousagimaru •
Emi Wakui as
Ikenozenni •
Riko Narumi as "Kenshunmon-in" Shigeko •
Fumi Nikaido as
Taira no Tokuko •
Tsuyoshi Muro as
Taira no Tadanori ===
Minamoto clan (Genji)=== •
Fumiyo Kohinata as
Minamoto no Tameyoshi, a head of the Minamoto samurai clan •
Hiroshi Tamaki as
Minamoto no Yoshitomo •
Rena Tanaka as
Yura Gozen •
Emi Takei as
Tokiwa Gozen •
Masaki Okada as
Minamoto no Yoritomo, Yoshitomo's third son / Narrator •
Taishi Nakagawa as young Yoritomo •
Ryunosuke Kamiki as
Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Yoshitomo's ninth son • Ryunosuke Hashino as young Yoshitsune (a.k.a. Ushiwakamaru) •
Munetaka Aoki as
Benkei •
Takashi Ukaji as
Minamoto no Yorimasa •
Kenichi Endō as
Hōjō Tokimasa • Mayumi Tsukiyama as Maki no Kata •
Anne as
Hōjō Masako • Takuya Nakayama as
Hōjō Yoshitoki •
Takashi Tsukamoto as
Tōkurō •
Saki Fukuda as Yae, Yoritomo's first wife.
Imperial family •
Shirō Itō as
Emperor Shirakawa, the 72nd emperor of Japan •
Hiroshi Mikami as
Emperor Toba, the 74th emperor of Japan •
Arata Iura as
Emperor Sutoku, the 75th emperor of Japan •
Takumi Kitamura as
Emperor Konoe, the 76th emperor of Japan •
Shota Matsuda as
Emperor Go-Shirakawa, the 77th emperor of Japan •
Satoshi Tomiura as
Emperor Nijō, the 78th emperor of Japan •
Yudai Chiba as
Emperor Takakura, the 80th emperor of Japan • Yūta Tanaka as
Emperor Antoku, the 81st emperor of Japan
Others •
Naohito Fujiki as
Saigyō •
Seiko Matsuda as Gion no nyōgo •
Yasuko Matsuyuki as
Bifukumon'in •
Rei Dan as
Taikenmon'in, the consort of Emperor Toba •
Sadao Abe as
Shinzei •
Koji Yamamoto as
Fujiwara no Yorinaga •
Keisuke Horibe as
Fujiwara no Tadamichi •
Jun Kunimura as
Fujiwara no Tadazane •
Shigeki Hosokawa as
Fujiwara no Motofusa •
Hisashi Yoshizawa as
Fujiwara no Narichika •
Toranosuke Kato as
Saikō • Toru Nomaguchi as Fujiwara no Korekata (episodes 25, 26, and 28) •
Toshihiro Yashiba as Fujiwara no Korekata (episode 19) • Manabu Hamada as
Kajiwara Kagetoki • Kō Takasugi as Kazusa Hirotsune • Toshiya Nagasawa as
Takeda Nobuyoshi • Ryūta Mine as Itō Sukechika • Seiji Kinoshita as
Ōba Kagechika •
Shun Sugata as Miura Yoshiaki • Hajime Tanimoto as Miura Yoshizumi, Yoshiaki's son • Kenzō as
Sasaki Hideyoshi • Moro Moro'oka as Doi Sanehira • Masakazu Itō as Chiba Tsunetane • Ryū Nakamura as Yamaki Kanetaka •
Muga Tsukaji as
Fujiwara no Nobuyori •
Masaki Kyomoto as
Fujiwara no Hidehira ==External links==