is a 1987 Japanese historical television series. It is the 25th NHK taiga drama. The broadcast received an average viewer rating of 39.7 percent in the Kanto area with the highest viewing rating of 47.8%. The drama was adapted from the novel of Sōhachi Yamaoka.
Plot The drama takes place during the late Sengoku and early Edo periods.
It chronicles the life of Date Masamune, from before his birth until his death.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan in 1590, but Date Masamune did not abandon his ambition to rule the nation at every possible opportunity.
Production
Original – Sōhachi Yamaoka Music – Shin’ichirō Ikebe Historical research – Keizō Suzuki Sword fight arranger - Kunishirō Hayashi Supervisor - Yasumune Date
Cast Starring role Ken Watanabe as Date Masamune, the one-eyed dragon Ryota Fujima (later Fujima Kanjuro VIII) as Bontenmaru (child Masamune) Eiji Shima as Tojiro (pre-teen Masamune)
Date clan Kin'ya Kitaōji as Date Terumune, Masamune's father Shima Iwashita as Yoshihime, Masamune's mother Junko Sakurada as Megohime (adult), Masamune's wife Kumiko Goto as Megohime (teenager) Tomokazu Miura as Date Shigezane, Masamune's cousin Raita Ryū as Date Sanemoto, Shigezane's father Teruhiko Saigō as Katakura Kojūrō, Masamune's most trusted vassal Keiko Takeshita as Katakura Kita, Kojūrō's half-sister Mikiko Otonashi as Tsuta, Kojūrō's wife Kenichi Okamoto as Date Kojirō, Masamune's younger brother Kumiko Akiyoshi as Iizaka no Tsubone, also known as Neko Gozen Yasuko Sawaguchi as Iroha, Masamune's first daughter Chosuke Ikariya as Oniniwa Sagetsu Takehiro Murata Oniniwa Tsunamoto Shigeru Kōyama as Endō Motonobu Kyōzō Nagatsuka as Rusu Masakage Mitsuru Hirata as Suzuki Motonobu Minori Terada as Ōuchi Sadatsuna Machiko Washio as Ochako Nobuo Yana as Munefuyu Murata Shirō Sano as Goto Nobuyasu Issey Ogata as Kokubu Morishige Hironobu Nomura as Date Tadamune, Masamune's second son Michiko Godai as Tose, Shigezane's wife Muneyuki Satō as Hasekura Tsunenaga Dai Nagasawa as Nakajima Munemoto
Mogami clan Yoshio Harada as Mogami Yoshiaki Imafuku Masao as Mogami Yoshimori Kaori Sakagami as Komahime, Yoshiaki's second daughter
Toyotomi clan Shintaro Katsu as Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the ruler of Japan Kaoru Yachigusa as Nene Kanako Higuchi as Yodo-dono, Hideyori's mother Eiji Okuda as Ishida Mitsunari Kisuke Yamashita as Toyotomi Hideyori, Hideyoshi's son Maiko Itō as Senhime Yoichi Hayashi as Asano Nagamasa Takanori Jinnai as Toyotomi Hidetsugu Yumiko Nogawa as Asahi no kata Takaaki Enoki as Ōno Harunaga Minoru Ōki as Maeda Toshiie Ken Teraizumi as Gamō Ujisato Gō Wakabayashi as Sanada Yukimura Tatsuo Matsumura as Katagiri Katsumoto Nobuyuki Katsube as Gotō Matabei Makoto Yuasa as Maeda Gen'i
Tokugawa clan Masahiko Tsugawa as Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate Hiroyuki Sanada as Matsudaira Tadateru, Iroha's husband Hiroshi Katsuno as Tokugawa Hidetada Shin Takuma as Tokugawa Iemitsu Junichi Nitta as Yūki Hideyasu Renji Ishibashi as Yagyū Munenori
Tamura clan Akira Kubo as Tamura Kiyoaki, Megohime's father Isao Yamagata as Mukaidate Takumi
Others Hideji Ōtaki as Kosai Sōitsu Ryūnosuke Kaneda as Ōkubo Nagayasu Ryō Ikebe as Sen no Rikyū Kei Tani as Imai Sōkun José Cardini as Luis Sotelo Joe Grace as Sebastián Vizcaíno Gentarō Ishida as Hatakeyama Yoshitsugu Hiroshi Arikawa as Shinjō Danjō Shinichi Tsutsumi as Ashina Yoshihiro Ryūzaburō Ōtomo as Kubota Jūrō Shin Aomori as Furukawa Danjō
Television schedule EpisodeOriginal airdateTitleDirected byRating1Masahiro Higuchi28.7%236.9%3Yoshiyuki Yoshimura40.7%437.9%5Masahiro Higuchi42.0%645.8%7Yoshiyuki Yoshimura43.0%845.2%9Masahiro Higuchi43.4%1043.7%11Yoshiyuki Yoshimura46.9%1243.1%13Yoshiki Nishimura41.2%14Masahiro Higuchi36.5%15Yoshiyuki Yoshimura35.9%1635.1%17Yukinori Kida40.3%18Masahiro Higuchi36.9%19Yoshiki Nishimura35.0%20Yoshiyuki Yoshimura44.7%2136.5%22Masahiro Higuchi38.6%2339.9%24Yoshiyuki Yoshimura39.2%2537.2%26Yoshiki Nishimura39.7%2737.1%28Masahiro Higuchi45.5%2941.0%30Yoshiyuki Yoshimura35.1%3136.3%32Yoshiki Nishimura35.2%33Masahiro Higuchi37.5%34Yoshiyuki Yoshimura36.8%3536.6%36Yoshiki Nishimura36.9%37Akio Suwabe43.0%38Yukinori Kida39.7%39Yoshiyuki Yoshimura38.8%4032.9%41Masahiro Higuchi41.3%4242.3%43Yukinori Kida43.7%44Yoshiyuki Yoshimura40.8%45Akio Suwabe44.1%46Masahiro Higuchi41.5%47Yukinori Kida38.9%48Yoshiyuki Yoshimura40.7%4944.2%50Masahiro Higuchi47.8%Average rating 39.7% - Rating is based on Japanese Video Research (Kantō region).
See also Sengoku period
References
External links Official Site