Musha Hajime

[Machine Translation] He had bucktooths and extremely curly hair. Benmaru (later Yukimura), a hostage of the Sanada family, was a very ugly man who appeared before Keikatsu, the head of the Uesugi family. He also said that his beautiful brother, Genzaburo (later Nobuyuki), would not be pleased with him. He was not pleased with his brother-in-law Saburo Kagesutora, who had competed with Kagesatsu for the succession to the throne, because he was famous for his beauty. He thought he was going to be defeated by Hideyoshi, but his cheerful personality won the favor of the difficult Kagetsugu. He gave Hideyoshi the right advice, reading the current situation, when Hideyoshi ordered him to go into battle, and he gained his trust as a military commander. As his presence in the Uesugi family grows, Benmaru is granted an audience with Hideyoshi in his father's place... In addition to Yukimura Sanada ("Busaiku Benmaru"), this film vividly depicts the unknown "first battle" of seven military commanders who made their names known throughout Japan, including Ieyasu Tokugawa, who strengthened his bonds with his retainers with a medicine he made himself; Hideyoshi Toyotomi, who faked his noble status; Soun Hojo; Shingen Takeda; Kenshin Uesugi; and Nobunaga Oda!

出っ歯の透きっ歯で極端な縮れ毛―。上杉家当主・景勝の前に現れた真田家の人質・弁丸(後の幸村)は大変な醜男であった。その上、美男の兄・源三郎(後の信之)では気に入らないだろうと言い放つ。景勝と跡目を争った義兄弟・三郎景虎が美男で名高かったからだ。手討ちになるかと思いきや、その明るい人柄で気難しい景勝に気に入られる。秀吉の出陣命令にも、時勢を読んだ的確な助言をし、武将としての厚い信頼も得る。上杉家中での存在感を増していく中、弁丸は父の名代として秀吉に謁見することになるが...。真田幸村を描いた「ぶさいく弁丸」他、自ら作った薬で家臣団との絆を強めた徳川家康、高貴な身分と偽った豊臣秀吉、北条早雲、武田信玄、上杉謙信、織田信長ら、天下に名を轟かせた七武将の知られざる“初陣”を鮮やかに描く!