Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ran aground off Tanegashima. Lord Tokitaka helped Captain Pinto repair his ship. The grateful captain offered the lord a gift--a matchlock musket—the first firearm ever seen in Japan. But like a great stone hurled into placid waters, this simple gift will start a revolution. Tokitaka tasks Kinbei, his greatest swordsmith, to copy this musket and build guns for Japan. While Kinbei struggles to forge Japan’s first musket, a great love blooms between Captain Pinto and Kinbei’s daughter Wakasa. But for Kinbei, to let Wakasa marry Pinto and go to Portugal is unthinkable. And as Kinbei creates Japan’s first matchlock factory, Lord Oda Nobunaga will seize upon firearms as the key to sweep all other clans before him, tearing a blood-soaked path of destruction through Japan.
Rick Jason
as Captain Pinto
若尾文子
as Wakasa
東野英治郎
as Kinbei Yaita
藤村志保
as Otane
藤巻潤
as Nobunaga Oda
小池朝雄
as Matasaburo Tachibanaya
中谷一郎
as Sakuji
戸浦六宏
as Wufeng
五味龍太郎
as Tokitada Oribenojô
内藤武敏
as Tokiaki Tanegashima
水原浩一
as Shigeomi
伊達三郎
as Tokunoshin Wakita
