Sanada Yukimura
Returning to NHK, he portrayed Saitō Yoshitatsu in the 1973 "taiga drama" "Kunitori Monogatari." He has also appeared as Sanada Yukimura in "Tokugawa Ieyasu" (1983), and as the same warrior in "Dokuganryū Masamune" (1987). He played Abe Masahiro in the 1990 "Tobu ga Gotoku", his most recent "taiga drama" appearance.