is a 1996 Japanese historical television series. It is the 35th NHK taiga drama television series.
Plot The story chronicles the life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
Production
Production Credits Original – Taichi Sakaiya Music – Reijirō Koroku Titling – Hisaya Morishige Narrator – Etsuko Ichihara, Ryuji Miyamoto Historical research – Tetsuo Owada Sword fight arranger - Kunishirō Hayashi
Cast Starring role Naoto Takenaka as Hideyoshi
Toyotomi clan Yasuko Sawaguchi as One - wife of Hideyoshi Etsuko Ichihara as Naka - mother of Hideyoshi Ichiro Zaitsu as Chikuami - stepfather of Hideyoshi Masanobu Takashima as Toyotomi Hidenaga - younger brother of Hideyoshi Naomi Hosokawa as Sato - younger sister of Hideyoshi Takako Matsu as Cha-cha - concubine of Hideyoshi Hiroyuki Sanada as Ishida Mitsunari Shun Oguri as Sakichi (young Mitsunari) Atsushi Onita as Hachisuka Masakatsu Ikkō Furuya as Takenaka Hanbei Masatō Ibu as Kuroda Kanbei Yosuke Asari as young Ukita Hideie
Oda clan Tetsuya Watari as Oda Nobunaga Hiroaki Murakami as Akechi Mitsuhide Narimi Arimori as Tsumaki Hiroko - wife of Mitsuhide Yōko Nogiwa as Omaki no kata - mother of Mitsuhide Eriko Tamura as Akechi Tama Mitsuko Yorichika as Oichi - younger sister of Nobunaga Akira Nakao as Shibata Katsuie Yasunori Danta as Takigawa Kazumasu Saburō Shinoda as Niwa Nagahide Masahiro Matsuoka as Mori Ranmaru Hideo Takamatsu as Hayashi Sado no Kami Samy Pop as Yasuke Junkichi Orimoto as Sakuma Nobumori Toru Watanabe as Maeda Toshiie Azusa Nakamura as Maeda Matsu
Tokugawa clan Masahiko Nishimura as Tokugawa Ieyasu Joe Shishido as Honda Masanobu Naoya Makoto as Ishikawa Kazumasa Ryū Manatsu as Sakai Tadatsugu Maki Ishikawa as Lady Tsukiyama Shin'ichirō Satō as Matsudaira Nobuyasu
Others Hidekazu Akai as Ishikawa Goemon - best friend of Hideyoshi Mayo Suzukaze as Otaki - wife of Goemon Tatsuya Nakadai as Sen no Rikyū - a tea master Kōji Tamaki as Ashikaga Yoshiaki - the 15th and last shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate Aki Yashiro as Osen Osamu Saka as Satomura Joha Terry O'Brien as Luís Fróis Masakane Yonekura as Imagawa Yoshimoto Ryūnosuke Kaneda as Saitō Dōsan Kiyoshi Nakajō as Ankokuji Ekei
TV schedule EpisodeOriginal airdateTitleDirected byRating1Mikio Satō26.6%229.2%3Rintarō Mayuzumi33.5%433.1%5Mikio Satō34.6%6Takeshi Shibata35.0%7Rintarō Mayuzumi33.7%8Mikio Satō33.2%9Takeshi Shibata32.0%10Rintarō Mayuzumi37.4%11Mikio Satō34.7%12Takeshi Shibata31.2%13Rintarō Mayuzumi30.7%14Mikio Satō28.4%15Takeshi Shibata32.7%16Rintarō Mayuzumi33.5%17Mikio Satō28.0%18Takeshi Shibata29.4%19Rintarō Mayuzumi31.7%20Kenji Shindō32.4%21Takeshi Shibata31.2%22Rintarō Mayuzumi30.6%23Mikio Satō36.2%24Takeshi Shibata32.8%25Keishi Ōtomo33.9%26Kenji Shindō33.2%27Mikio Satō31.3%28Takeshi Shibata33.5%29Rintarō Mayuzumi31.2%30Mikio Satō26.4%31Takeshi Shibata26.8%32Yoshiharu Katō29.7%33Rintarō Mayuzumi29.9%34Mikio Satō31.8%35Takeshi Shibata33.1%36Taku Katō29.5%37Rintarō Mayuzumi31.8%38Taku Katō23.9%39Mikio Satō22.2%40Yuki Nakashima27.9%41Rintarō Mayuzumi29.1%42Takeshi Shibata25.0%43Keishi Ōtomo27.2%44Mikio Satō29.1%45Rintarō Mayuzumi30.0%46Mikio Satō30.5%47Takeshi Shibata25.9%48Mikio Satō27.3%49Rintarō Mayuzumi27.1%Average rating 30.5% - Rating is based on Japanese Video Research (Kantō region).
Broadcasting in the United States Circa 1997–98, New Jersey Network would air the show subtitled in English on Sunday evenings at 11:00pm EST. However, there is no physical domestic release of this series on VHS or DVD.
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