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The story, to a large extent, was an adaptation of Yasushi Inoue's 1959 historical novel of the same title (published in English under the title The Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan). The four characters of the title, from left to right are wind, woods, fire, and mountain. The title is a reference to the war banner used by Takeda Shingen, which in turn was taken from Sun Tzu's The Art of War. It means "Swift as the Wind, Silent as a Forest, Fierce as Fire and Immovable as a Mountain."
Story
Like many of the previous Taiga dramas, Fūrin Kazan deals with the Sengoku period. Based on Yasushi Inoue's novel by the same title, it depicts the life of Yamamoto Kansuke who is known as one of Takeda Shingen's renowned strategists.
Staff
Original : Yasushi Inoue
Screenwriter : Sumio Ōmori
Music : Akira Senju
Titling : Kōji Kakinuma
Narrator : Sachiko Kagami
Historical research : Shunroku Shibatsuji
Architectural research : Sei Hirai
Clothing research : Kiyoko Koizumi
Production coordinator : Hisaaki Wakaizumi
Director : Kazuhiko Shimizu
Yamamoto family
Yamamoto Kansuke: Masaaki Uchino
Mitsu: Shihori Kanjiya
Ritsu: Aki Maeda
Kuzukasa village
Kawaramura Denbei: Yoshiki Arizono
Hazuki: Juri Manase
Kuzukasa Takichi: Jiyuu Arima
Okuma: Aoi Asada
Yazaki Heizō:Ryuta Satō
Hisa: Asami Mizukawa
Takeda family
Takeda Shingen: Ichikawa Kamejirō
young Shingen: Sōsuke Ikematsu
Princess Yū: Yuki Shibamoto
Lady Sanjō: Chizuru Ikewaki
Princess Ogoto: Mahiru Konno
Takeda Nobutora: Tatsuya Nakadai
Lady Ooi: Jun Fubuki
Takeda Nobushige: Noritoshi Kashiwa
Takeda Nobukado: Toshinobu Matsuo
Nene: Sachiko Sakurai
Takeda Yoshinobu: Ryo Kimura
Suwa Katsuyori: Sōsuke Ikematsu
Takeda Army
Itagaki Nobukata: Sonny Chiba
Amari Torayasu: Raita Ryu
Obu Toramasa: Akio Kaneda
Morozumi Torasada: Takeshi Katō
Oyamada Nobuari: Seiichi Tanabe
Baba Nobuharu: Kazuya Takahashi
Hara Toratane: Kai Shishido
Komai Masatake: Issei Takahashi
Kosaka Masanobu: Kōtarō Tanaka
Yamagata Masakage: Yasuyuki Maekawa
Akiyama Nobutomo: Hidekazu Ichinose
Sanada Yukitaka: Kuranosuke Sasaki
Shinome: Misa Shimizu
Sanada Gengorō: Kaito Kobayashi
Aiki Ichibe: Yoshimasa Kondō
Akabe Shimotsuke: Susumu Terajima
Princess Miru: Yōko Maki
Shima: Akemi Omori
Hagino: Miyoko Asada
kinu: Moeko Ezawa
Uesugi
Uesugi Kenshin: Gackt
Usami Sadamitsu: Ken Ogata
Naoe Sanetsuna: Tokuma Nishioka
Kakizaki Kageie: Kenichi Kaneda
Ōkuma Tomohide: Gorō Ōhashi
Momo: Naomi Nishida
Nami: Fusako Urabe
Uesugi Norimasa: Ichikawa Sadanji
Nagano Narimasa: Mantarō Koichi
Uesugi Sadazane: Mizuho Suzuki
Imagawa
Imagawa Yoshimoto: Shōsuke Tanihara
Jukeini: Shiho Fujimura
Taigen Sessai: Masatō Ibu
Matsudaira Motoyasu: Keisuke Sakamoto
Hōjō
Hōjō Ujiyasu: Makoto Matsui
Hōjō Ujitsuna: Tōru Shinagawa
Hōjō Ujimasa: Saotome Taichi
Shimizu Yoshimasa: Tadashi Yokouchi
Other Shinano Daimyō
Murakami Yoshikiyo: Toshiyuki Nagashima
Suwa Yorishige: Fumiyo Kohinata
Suwa Yoritaka: Kenshō Ono
Ogasawara Nagatoki: Akihiko Imai
Takatō Yoritsugu: Shōzō Uesugi
Others
Aoki Daizen: Wataru Shihodō
Ofuku: Mako Midori
Oda Nobunaga: Jirō Sakuma
Seiin: Kei Satō
Episodes
Episode 1 - The One-Eyed Man
Episode 2 - Farewell to Home
Episode 3 - Marici's Wife
Episode 4 - Demon of Vengeance
Episode 5 - Suruga Rebellion
Episode 6 - The Road to Employment
Episode 7 - Haranobu's First Battle
Episode 8 - Surprise Attack
Episode 9 - Kasuke's Death
Episode 10 - Haranobu Commits Treason
Episode 11 - Nobutora's Banshiment
Soundtrack
Fūrin Kazan (EMI Music Japan)
Fūrin Kazan, last part (EMI Music Japan)
Books
Official guide
NHK Taiga drama story Fūrin Kazan first part ISBN 978-4-14-923345-1(December 20, 2006)
NHK Taiga drama story Fūrin Kazan last part ISBN 978-4-14-923346-8(June 25, 2007)
NHK Taiga drama, Historical handbook, Fūrin Kazan ISBN 978-4-14-910617-5(December 2006)
Novel
NHK Taiga drama 1, volume of wind ISBN 978-4-14-005509-0(November 2006)
NHK Taiga drama 2, volume of forest ISBN 978-4-14-005510-6(March 2007)
NHK Taiga drama 3, volume of fire ISBN 978-4-14-005511-3(June 2007)
NHK Taiga drama 4, volume of mountain ISBN 978-4-14-005512-0(September 2007)