The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the Army of the West of Ishida Mitsunari. The story includes the intrigues and shifting loyalties of the various retainers, family members, and samurai.
Ishida Mitsunari
Hatsume
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Shima Sakon
Kobayakawa Hideaki
Otani Yoshitsugu
Naoe Kanetsugu
Ankokuji Ekei
Serubicchi
Hanano
Myozen
Shirohebi
Ii Naomasa
Fukushima Masanori
Kuroda Nagamasa
Kato Kiyomasa
Kita no Mandokoro
Maeda Toshiie
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Nobukatsu Shima
Ishida Mitsunari
Hatsume
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Shima Sakon
Kobayakawa Hideaki
Otani Yoshitsugu
Naoe Kanetsugu
Ankokuji Ekei
Serubicchi
Hanano
Myozen
Shirohebi
Ii Naomasa
Fukushima Masanori
Kuroda Nagamasa
Kato Kiyomasa
Kita no Mandokoro
Maeda Toshiie
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Nobukatsu Shima