People of The Sengoku Period in Popular Culture - Uesugi Kenshin

Uesugi Kenshin

• Kenshin, as Kagetora, is the main character in the film Heaven and Earth.
• Kenshin, as Nagao Kagetora is a central character in the Japanese sci-fi film Sengoku Jietai.
• Kenshin, played by Abe Hiroshi, is a major supporting character in the NHK Taiga Drama Tenchijin.
• Kenshin is featured in Koei's video game series Samurai Warriors and Warriors Orochi. He wields a seven bladed sword and prays to Bishamonten every time he starts a battle.
• In the game Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties players must raise an army to defeat him in order to pacify a rebellion against the player.
• In Samurai Warriors, one ending has him allow many warriors to join him. Another ending has him release Takeda Shingen, and they become friends. A third ending has him working with Kunoichi, Takeda Shingen, and Sanada Yukimura in rebuilding Japan after its unification. In SW2, he lets go of Takeda Shingen. In the Warriors Orochi series, he works with the Oda and the Takeda twice to wipe out Orochi. In Dream Mode, he teams with Guan Yu and Xu Huang to rescue Inahime, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Mori Ranmaru from Sima Yi, the Date, and Taira Kiyomori.
• He also features in Koei's Nobunaga's Ambition series of games. He makes another appearance in Kessen III, also by Koei.
• Kenshin is also featured in Capcom's Sengoku Basara. In there, he is depicted as a much more feminine figure who would sometimes act rather narcissistic. He is assisted by Kasuga, a fictional Kunoichi who is apparently in love with him (she may possibly be named after Kasugayama Castle, Kenshin's primary fortress).
• The board game Shogun features Uesugi Kenshin as one of the daimyos to choose.
• Kenshin is portrayed by Japanese pop culture icon Gackt in the Japanese taiga drama Fūrinkazan (風林火山), as well as in the anime of the gag manga, Tono to Issho.
• In the anime Rurouni Kenshin, the main character is a wandering samurai named Kenshin, whose fighting style includes moves related to dragons in a reference to "The Dragon of Echigo." The anime character is also noted for his "godlike speed," and eventually comes into conflict with a gun-wielding entrepreneur whose surname is Takeda.
• In the SNES (Super Nintendo) game Inindo: Way of the Ninja, Uesugi Kenshin is Daimyo of the province Echigo.
• In the eroge Sengoku Rance, Uesugi Kenshin is presented as one of the winnable girls who is also lord of two provinces in JAPAN.
• A gender-swapped Kenshin appears in Sengoku Otome: Momoiro Paradox.