Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord (2021)
Original title: 桶狭間～織田信長 覇王の誕生～
Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord is a 2021 Japanese-language drama movie directed by Shunsaku Kawake, with a running time of 2h 1m. It stars Ichikawa Ebizo XI, Suzu Hirose and Akiyoshi Nakao.
Drama set in the historical Warring States Era of Japan. Tokaido name Imagawa Yoshimoto personally led his army to invade Owari Province territory, now in Aichi Prefecture Nagoya City area, was the leader Nobunaga of this surprising burst of death. After the war, the Imagawa clan who originally dominated the Tokaido region fell away, and the victorious Oda Nobunaga quickly expanded his power in Central Japan and the Kinki region, laying the foundation for his future control of the central government of Japan.
Cast
- Ichikawa Ebizo XI as Oda Nobunaga
- Suzu Hirose as No-hime (Nobunaga's wife)
- Akiyoshi Nakao as Tomohiro Kiyoshi
- Naoto Takenaka as Michizora Hotaka
- Kazuki Kitamura as Oda Nobuhide
- Ryosuke Mikata as Hattori Koheita
- Ryuhei Matsuda as Shibata Katsuie
- Koichi Sato as Saito Dozo
- Hitomi Kuroki as Tsuchida Gozen
- Ouji Suzuka as Matsudaira Motoyasu
- Hiroshi Mikami as Imagawa Yoshimoto