Matsudaira Naritsugu

was the 14th daimyō of Fukui Domain under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate in Echizen Province.

Biography Naritsugu was born in Fukui as the third son of Matsudaira Haruyoshi. Naritsugu's mother was of lowly origins, she was taken care of by the later ruler Matsudaira Shungaku who described her as a 'teahouse girl'. The film is set in 1844 and portrays Naritsugu as the sadistic half-brother of the Shōgun and that his death was an assassination carried out on the order of Doi Toshitsura, both of these elements would remain true in the remake. In Takashi Miike's 2010 remake, Naritsugu again plays the villain, portrayed by Gorō Inagaki. In Eleven Samurai, a 1967 semi-remake of 13 Assassins also by Kudo, the final installment of his unofficial Samurai Revolution trilogy, the Matsudaira character is again depicted as an amoral, murderous lord but given the first name Nariatsu and again portrayed by Kantarō Suga.