People of The Sengoku Period in Popular Culture - Honda Tadakatsu

Honda Tadakatsu

• Honda Tadakatsu appears in numerous Japanese jidaigeki that show the rise of the Tokugawa to power. He is a minor role in Akira Kurosawa's movie Kagemusha.
• Honda Tadakatsu also appears in the video games Kessen and in the Samurai Warriors series, in which he is in almost every way the equivalent of Lu Bu of the Dynasty Warriors series: extremely powerful, with his own theme music which plays when he is engaged in battle by the player character, and in any series trying to fight him alone usually results in death, unless playing as a character that is on par with him, such as Yukimura, Keiji, or Musashi; even then, he could very well defeat an opponent easily.
• In Onimusha 3, he is one of Akechi Samanousuke's allies in defeating Oda Nobunaga.
• In Sengoku Basara, he appears to be part machine and wield a giant drill. An unspeaking giant, Tadakatsu moves by way of jet packs in his armor, and is extremely hard to defeat.
• In Samurai Warriors Xtreme Legends and Samurai Warriors 2, he works with Tokugawa Ieyasu to unite the land. In one ending in Xtreme Legends, he kills Maeda Keiji. He is also in the spinoff game Samurai Warriors Katana. In Warriors Orochi, he is one of the resistance leaders against Orochi. In WO2, he is reunited as a starter character with his daughter, Inahime, and his lord, Tokugawa Ieyasu. He works with Zhang Fei in repelling Lu Bu's forces at Nagashino. He and Zhang Fei give Inahime and Xing Cai, their daughters, advice, and they see them go off to find information on Taira Kiyomori. In Dream Mode, he has two stories. In one, he fights alongside Maeda Keiji and Lu Bu. In another, he works with Zhang Fei, Miyamoto Musashi, and Inahime in rescuing Xing Cai and Tokugawa Ieyasu from the Toyotomi at Hinokawa.
• Honda Tadakatsu is one of the five racoon dog captains of the Tokugawa clan ruled by Tokugawa Ieyasu, the racoon dog youkai, in the eroge Sengoku Rance.