Yagyu Sekishusai is a consummate swordsman teaching the Yagyu Shinkage style of fencing from his family dojo. His ambition has always been to achieve fame for the Yagyu clan. His son Munenori hangs around with the local ninja children and frequently avoids practice to do so. As a result, the father considers the son to be weak and is harsh and disparaging both in training and in personal life.
After Munenori's older brother is injured during the Battle of Sekigahara, Sekishusai decides to name his grandson Hyogonosuke as his successor as head of the Yagyu Shinkage school, considering Munenori to be unworthy of the position. Munenori witnesses his 'mutodori' technique of unarmed combat against a weapon-bearing opponent and then sets out to develop his own style based not on the desire to kill but to defend one's self. He becomes a master in his own right while forming a strong alliance with the Tokugawa who ascend to take power in the land.
Munenori becomes a highly-placed key vassal for the Tokugawa, initially as sword instructor and then as Minister of Justice. He also helps to institute the draconian policies of suppression designed to quell any opposition to Tokugawa rule thereby bringing peace to the nation. This viewpoint is not appreciated by his son Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi who is opposed to what he sees as underhanded tactics, regardless of their eventual results "for the greater good". Father and son must put aside their differences in order to confront a plot that could de-stabilise the country.
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He graduated from Kyoto Rakusei Junior High School but dropped out of high school affiliated to Waseda University. He graduated from Nakano High School affiliated with Meiji University and graduated from Bunka Gakuin Junior College of Culture. He engaged in film director activities as Makino Masahiko, and his first work is "The Night Watch Rhapsody". After having starred in many TV shows and films, including the film "Heaven and Earth" in Takeda Shingen and NHK River drama " Aoi Tokugawa Sandai " in the Tokugawa Ieyasu, he became well known to the people. In March 2019, he won the 42nd Japan Film Academy Awards President’s Special Award.
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At the beginning of sixth grade, Mikijiro evacuated to the home of his maternal great-uncle in Kamigeshi-cho, Konu, eastern Hiroshima, Japan. His mother remained in Hiroshima. Following her mother's illness, although childless, their farming relatives offered to take him in, but Mikijiro expressed his reluctance to become a farmer's child.
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On October 23, 2016, he was discovered unconscious in the bathtub of his home by his son and later confirmed deceased. Following the conclusion that there was no foul play involved in his death through investigations by the Kitazawa Police Station of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, the family decided to declare October 22 as the date of death, citing the cause of death as unknown. He passed away at the age of 82.
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