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See also: People of the Sengoku period in popular culture#Takeda ShingenIn Samurai Champloo. The Character "Jin" Has the Takeda symbol on his KeiKogi.
Takeda's battles with Kagetora were dramatized in the movie Heaven and Earth.
Takeda Shingen's death is fictionalized in Akira Kurosawa's film Kagemusha.
Shingen the Ruler (Takeda Shingen 2 in Japan) is a turn-based strategy game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), produced by Hot B in 1989, and released in North America in 1990. The Takeda Clan is a faction in Sega's Shogun: Total War and Total War: Shogun 2.
Takeda Shingen has appeared in the highly popular Samurai Warriors and Sengoku Basara video game franchises, and in the anime Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings. He is also an character in all of the games of the Warriors Orochi series. He is a playable character in Pokémon Conquest (Pokémon + Nobunaga's Ambition in Japan), with his partner Pokémon being Rhyperior and Groudon.
One of his notable descendants is video game music composer Ryu Umemoto (1974-2011).
Takeda Shingen was mentioned in episode 10 of The Tatami Galaxy when the protagonist noted that a 4.5 tatami room is perfect, and if a room were to be larger than the size of 4.5 tatami mats, it would end up being "as spacious as Takeda Shingen's lavatory, and one might even get lost".
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