Takeda’s role himself is typically assumed ... arrive to catch the Shingen-ko festival. In addition to the samurai, the festival also features taiko drummers, maidens in traditional garb ...

The highlight of the Shingen-Ko Festival is the Koshu Battalion Deployment or samurai parade, which sees more than 1,000 people dressed as samurai marching down the streets of Kofu on Saturday ...

plays both lord Takeda and the kagemusha. Yojimbo, aka Bodyguard, is Kurosawa's second most famous film after Seven Samurai, though the competition is pretty big. Yojimbo is often talked about as ...

Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring ...

including the 1988 NHK taiga period drama "Takeda Shingen." And his wisdom is often referenced in relation to Bushido, the way of the samurai. There's one quote that stands out in particular ...