The 13 Lords of the Shogun

is a Japanese historical drama television series starring Shun Oguri as Hōjō Yoshitoki. The series is the 61st NHK taiga drama.

Starring role

 * Shun Oguri as Hōjō Yoshitoki. Kōki Mitani pointed out some similarities between him and Michael Corleone.

Hōjō clan

 * Eiko Koike as Hōjō Masako, Yoshitoki's older sister
 * Bandō Yajūrō as Hōjō Tokimasa, Yoshitoki's father
 * Rie Miyazawa as Maki no Kata, a.k.a. Riku, Yoshitoki's stepmother
 * Kataoka Ainosuke VI as Hōjō Munetoki, Yoshitoki's older brother
 * Emma Miyazawa as Awa no Tsubone, a.k.a. Mii, Yoshitoki's younger sister
 * Kentaro Sakaguchi as Hōjō Yasutoki, Yoshitoki and Yae's son
 * Yurito Mori as Kongō (young Yasutoki)
 * Momoko Fukuchi as Hatsu, Yasutoki's wife
 * Kōji Seto as Hōjō Tokifusa, Yoshitoki's younger brother
 * Mayu Hotta as Hina, a.k.a. Hime no Mae, Yoshitoki's second wife
 * Takeru Nishimoto (Super Size Me) as Hōjō Tomotoki, Yoshitoki and Hina's son
 * Rinko Kikuchi as Noe, a.k.a. Iga no Kata, Yoshitoki's third wife
 * Taisuke Niihara as Hōjō Masamura, Yoshitoki and Noe's son
 * Tsubasa Nakagawa as Hōjō Masanori, Yoshitoki's half-brother
 * Rikako Yagi as Kiku, Yoshitoki's half-sister
 * Ichika Osaki as Aki, Yoshitoki's half-sister
 * Masaki Murakami as Inage Shigenari, Aki's husband
 * Hiroyuki Takagishi (Timon D) as Nitta Tadatsune
 * Kizuki as Tsurumaru (later known as Taira no Moritsuna)
 * Haruto Satō as young Tsurumaru
 * Takashi Yamanaka as Hiraga Tomomasa

Minamoto clan

 * Yo Oizumi as Minamoto no Yoritomo, Masako's husband and the first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate.
 * Masaki Suda as Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Yoritomo's younger brother
 * Sō Kaku as Benkei
 * Shizuka Ishibashi as Shizuka Gozen, Yoshitsune's mistress
 * Tōko Miura as Sato, Yoshitsune's wife
 * Daichi Kaneko as Minamoto no Yoriie, the second shogun
 * Sōma Torigoe as Manju (young Yoriie)
 * Kana Kita as Tsutsuji, Yoriie's wife
 * Kasumi Yamaya as Setsu, a.k.a. Lady Wakasa, Yoriie's concubine
 * Sōta Aizawa as Ichiman
 * Hayato Kakizawa as Minamoto no Sanetomo, the third shogun
 * Kiara Minegishi as Senman (young Sanetomo)
 * Konatsu Katō as Chiyo, Sanetomo's wife
 * Sara Minami as Ōhime
 * Miyuko Ochii as young Ōhime
 * Yuno Ōta as Sanman
 * Kan'ichirō as Kōgyō, commonly known as Kugyō.
 * Rinto Takahira as Zenzai (young Kōgyō, around 10 years old)
 * Tsubasa Nagao as Zenzai (young Kōgyō, around 5 years old)
 * Takaya Sakoda as Minamoto no Noriyori
 * Shin'ya Niiro as Ano Zenjō
 * Kaito Kobayashi as Ano Raizen
 * Yūsaku Mori as Ano Tokimoto
 * Tetta Sugimoto as Minamoto no Yukiie
 * Noriko Eguchi as Kame
 * Songha as Gien
 * Shinano
 * Munetaka Aoki as Kiso Yoshinaka
 * Ichikawa Somegorō VIII as Kiso Yoshitaka
 * Sayaka Akimoto as Tomoe Gozen
 * Yū Machida as Imai Kanehira
 * Kai
 * Norito Yashima as Takeda Nobuyoshi
 * Kō Maehara as Ichijō Tadayori

The 13 lords of the Shogun (other than Yoshitoki and Tokimasa)

 * Jiro Sato as Hiki Yoshikazu
 * Nakamura Shidō II as Kajiwara Kagetoki
 * Yoshihiro Nozoe as Adachi Morinaga
 * Eiji Yokota as Wada Yoshimori
 * Hideo Kurihara as Ōe no Hiromoto
 * Takashi Kobayashi as Miyoshi Yasunobu
 * Hayato Ichihara as Hatta Tomoie
 * Yasuhiro Ōno as Adachi Tōmoto
 * Jun'ya Kawashima as Nakahara no Chikayoshi
 * Isao Nonaka as Nikaidō Yukimasa
 * B-saku Satō as Miura Yoshizumi, Yoshimura's father

Other eastern samurai and their families

 * Sagami
 * Koji Yamamoto as Miura Yoshimura
 * Tatsuya Kishida as Miura Taneyoshi
 * Taiga Komie as Komawaka-maru (later known as Miura Mitsumura)
 * Jun Kunimura as Ōba Kagechika
 * Kenji Anan as Doi Sanehira
 * Makiya Yamaguchi as Yamanouchisudō Tsunetoshi
 * Taka Takao as Okazaki Yoshizane
 * Suon Kan as Sasaki Hideyoshi
 * Takahiro Kimata as Sasaki Sadatsuna
 * Hiroki Ezawa as Sasaki Tsunetaka
 * Kazuya Masuda as Sasaki Moritsuna
 * Tsuyoshi Mitera as Sasaki Takatsuna
 * Hiroaki Hirata as Satake Yoshimasa
 * Reiya Masaki as Kajiwara Kagesue
 * Eishin as Asahina Yoshihide
 * Masaki Naitō as Wada Yoshinao
 * Yūdai Hayashi as Wada Yoshishige
 * Gaku Hosokawa as Wada Tanenaga
 * Izu
 * Kazuyuki Asano as Itō Sukechika
 * Terunosuke Takezai as Itō Sukekiyo
 * Yui Aragaki as Yae, Yoritomo's first wife and Yoshitoki's first wife.
 * Keisei Ōta as Sentsurumaru
 * Zen Kajihara as Zenji, an assassin
 * Chihiro Yamamoto as Tō
 * Airi Takahashi as young Tō
 * Yoshiyuki Tsubokura (Wagaya) as Kudō Suketsune
 * Takato Yonemoto as Kudō Shigemitsu
 * Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi as Kawazu Sukeyasu
 * Kazuya Tanabe as Soga Jūrō
 * Eishi Ōfuji as Ichiman (young Jūrō)
 * Shunsuke Tanaka as Soga Gorō
 * Kōki Kagaya as Hako'ō (young Gorō)
 * Tateto Serizawa as Ema Jirō, Yae's second husband
 * Kazutoyo Yoshimi as Tsusumi Nobutō
 * Takuma Nagao as Tōnai Mitsuzumi
 * Musashi
 * Taishi Nakagawa as Hatakeyama Shigetada
 * Mei Fukuda as Chie, Yoshitoki's half-sister and Shigetada's wife.
 * Rairu Sugita as Hatakeyama Shigeyasu
 * Keiko Horiuchi as Michi
 * Mitsuko Kusabue as Hiki no Ama
 * Eiki Narita as Hiki Tokikazu
 * Kaito as Hiki Munetomo
 * Bōsō
 * Kōichi Satō as Kazusa Hirotsune
 * Nobuto Okamoto as Chiba Tsunetane
 * Awa
 * Manabu Ino as Anzai Kagemasu
 * Kōji Kurosawa as Nagasa Tsunetomo
 * Manabu Takeuchi (Kaminari) as Gonzō
 * Others
 * Atsushi Nakamura as Oyama Tomomasa
 * Nao Takahashi as Yūki Tomomitsu
 * Shin Shimizu as Naganuma Munemasa
 * Motohiro Niina as Adachi Kagemori
 * Eriko Aube as Yū
 * Ayumu as Nakano Yoshinari
 * Naritada Nishimura as Ogasawara Nagatsune

The imperial court

 * Toshiyuki Nishida as Emperor Go-Shirakawa, the 77th emperor of Japan
 * Onoe Matsuya II as Emperor Go-Toba, who initiated the Jōkyū War
 * Rihito Kikui as young Emperor Go-Toba
 * Toma Ikuta as Minamoto no Nakaakira
 * Kyōka Suzuki as Tango no Tsubone
 * Toshihiro Yashiba as Taira no Tomoyasu
 * Hajime Yamazaki as Maki Munechika
 * Subaru Kimura as Prince Mochihito
 * Tōru Shinagawa as Minamoto no Yorimasa
 * Chisa Aizawa as Emperor Antoku
 * Mitsunojō Itō as toddler Emperor Antoku
 * Takeharu Morimoto as Nakahara no Tomochika
 * Naoki Tanaka as Kujō Kanezane
 * Kazunari Murakami as Tosanobō Shōshun
 * Tomokazu Seki as Tsuchimikado Michichika
 * Sylvia Grab as Fujiwara no Kaneko
 * Yūya Kido as Ichijō Takayoshi
 * Tomoya Hoshi as Fujiwara no Hideyasu
 * Myung-joo Inoue as Minamoto no Yorimochi
 * Iori Koshida as Mitora

Taira clan

 * Ken Matsudaira as Taira no Kiyomori
 * Kyōko Ōtani as Taira no Tokiko
 * Kotaro Koizumi as Taira no Munemori
 * Shogo Hama as Taira no Koremori
 * Kano Ichiki as "Kenshunmon-in" Shigeko
 * Kaishi Iwao as Taira no Tomomori
 * Yūto Shimada as Taira no Kiyomune

Northern Fujiwara

 * Min Tanaka as Fujiwara no Hidehira
 * Yūsuke Hirayama as Fujiwara no Kunihira
 * Hiroshi Yamamoto as Fujiwara no Yasuhira
 * Mayumi Amano as Toku
 * Jun'ichi Kawanami as Fujiwara no Yorihira
 * Hiroshi Kobayashi as Kawada Jirō

Others

 * Ichikawa Ennosuke IV as Mongaku
 * Tarō Suwa as Mon'yōbō Kakuen
 * Kazuyuki Aijima as Unkei
 * Kenichi Ogata as the chief priest of Ganjōju-in.
 * Koichi Yamadera as Jien
 * Gene L. Zheng as Chen Heqing, a.k.a. Chin Nakei
 * Shihō Harumi as a doctor
 * Shinobu Otake as a Miko
 * Sayaka Isoyama as Satsuki
 * Jun Matsumoto as Tokugawa Ieyasu