An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.

Richard Chamberlain, John Rhys-Davies, Orson Welles, Alan Badel, Vladek Sheybal, Toshirō Mifune, Frankie Sakai, Yûki Meguro, Yoko Shimada, Michael Hordern, George Innes, Damien Thomas, Hideo Takamatsu, Hiromi Senno, Leon Lissek, Nobuo Kaneko, Takeshi Ôbayashi, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Akira Sera, Atsuko Sano, Miiko Taka, Masumi Okada, Edward Peel, Eric Richard, Neil McCarthy, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yōsuke Natsuki, William Morgan Sheppard, Shin Takuma, Ai Matsubara, John J. Carney, Anne Bancroft, Tōru Abe