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is a 2017 Japanese historical drama television series and the 56th
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taiga drama. It is written by Yoshiko Morishita and stars
Ko Shibasaki is a Japanese actress and singer who has performed in television shows, movies, and commercials. She is managed by Stardust Promotion. Biography Acting career Shibasaki debuted in 2000, when she portrayed Mitsuko Souma in '' Battle Royale.'' ...
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Ii Naotora Ii Naotora (井伊 直虎, d. 12 September 1582) was a daimyō of the Sengoku period. She was the daughter and only child of Ii Naomori, the eighteenth head of their clan. She was primarily the head of Ii clan and retainer of the Imagawa clan, bec ...
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Plot

During the Sengoku period, the Ii family governs the Totomi region. Due to many past wars, there are no more male successors left to become a lord. Naotora Ii (Kou Shibasaki), the only daughter of the lord, now becomes a lord. She faces a difficult period. The constant love from her fiancé, whom she became engaged to at a young age, helps her to keep moving forward.


Cast


Ii clan is a Japanese clan which originates in Tōtōmi Province. It was a retainer clan of the Imagawa family, and then switched sides to the Matsudaira clan of Mikawa Province at the reign of Ii Naotora. A famed 16th-century clan member, Ii Naom ...

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Ko Shibasaki is a Japanese actress and singer who has performed in television shows, movies, and commercials. She is managed by Stardust Promotion. Biography Acting career Shibasaki debuted in 2000, when she portrayed Mitsuko Souma in '' Battle Royale.'' ...
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Ii Naotora Ii Naotora (井伊 直虎, d. 12 September 1582) was a daimyō of the Sengoku period. She was the daughter and only child of Ii Naomori, the eighteenth head of their clan. She was primarily the head of Ii clan and retainer of the Imagawa clan, bec ...
**Miu Arai as Otowa (young Naotora) *
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Ii Naochika was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period, who served the Imagawa clan. It was planned that he would marry Ii Naomori's daughter Naotora but then he fled to Shinano, to avoid committing suicide caused by slander from an Imagawa retainer. ...
**Kanata Fujimoto as Kamenojō (young Naochika) *
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Ii Naomasa was a general under the Sengoku period ''daimyō'', and later ''shōgun'', Tokugawa Ieyasu.Kokoro Terada is a Japanese child actor and TV personality. Filmography TV dramas * Tonbi　- Yasuo Ichikawa (child) (TBS / 2013) * Ashita, Mama ga Inai - Nippachi (Nippon TV / 2014) * Hotel Concierge (ep.1) - Tsubasa Kaiho ( TBS / 2015) * ABU Asian C ...
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Ii Naomori was a retainer of the Japanese Imagawa clan during the Sengoku period of the 16th century. During the Battle of Okehazama in 1560, Naomori was killed while trying to protect his lord, Imagawa Yoshimoto during the attack led by Oda Nobunaga, who ...
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Ii Naomitsu was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period, who had served in the Imagawa clan was a Japanese samurai clan that claimed descent from the Seiwa Genji by way of the Kawachi Genji. It was a branch of the Minamoto clan by the Ashikaga clan. ...
*Aki Asakura as Takase, Naomasa's half-sister **
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as Ōsawa Mototane *Kazutoyo Yoshimi as Nakayasu Hyōbu *
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* Sadao Abe as
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**Raiki Komino as Takechiyo (young Nobuyasu) *
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, the mother of Ieyasu *
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*Moro Moro'oka as
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* Masahiro Takashima as
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Sakakibara Yasumasa was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the late Sengoku period through early Edo period, who served the Tokugawa clan. As one of the Tokugawa family's foremost military commanders, he was considered one of its Shitennō (Tokugawa clan), "Four Guardian K ...
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Oda Nobunaga was a Japanese ''daimyō'' and one of the leading figures of the Sengoku period. He is regarded as the first "Great Unifier" of Japan. Nobunaga was head of the very powerful Oda clan, and launched a war against other ''daimyō'' to unify ...
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Akechi Mitsuhide , first called Jūbei from his clan and later from his title, was a Japanese ''samurai'' general of the Sengoku period best known as the assassin of Oda Nobunaga. Mitsuhide was a bodyguard of Ashikaga Yoshiaki and later a successful general under ...
*Sora Uehara as
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*Shōzō Uesugi as
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*Seiji Kinoshita as Hasegawa Hidekazu *Rei Tanaka as Jinen, Mitsuhide's son


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*Shigemitsu Ogi *Wataru Murakami


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Production

Production Credits *Music –
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*Title designer – Maaya Wakasugi *Historical research –
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*Architectural research – Kiyoshi Hirai *Clothing research – Hiroaki Koizumi


Casting

Ko Shibasaki is a Japanese actress and singer who has performed in television shows, movies, and commercials. She is managed by Stardust Promotion. Biography Acting career Shibasaki debuted in 2000, when she portrayed Mitsuko Souma in '' Battle Royale.'' ...
was announced to portray the lead role of the warlord
Ii Naotora Ii Naotora (井伊 直虎, d. 12 September 1582) was a daimyō of the Sengoku period. She was the daughter and only child of Ii Naomori, the eighteenth head of their clan. She was primarily the head of Ii clan and retainer of the Imagawa clan, bec ...
on August 25, 2015. The rest of the main cast was announced on May 26, 2016, which included
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, Gin Maeda, Kaoru Kobayashi,
Haruma Miura was a Japanese actor and singer. He made his acting debut in the television drama ''Agri'' (1997) and rose to popularity after starring in the film '' Koizora'' (2007), winning Newcomer of the Year at the 31st Japan Academy Prize. In the foll ...
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, and
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among others. The third cast announcement on July 12, 2016 included
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among others.


Filming

The usual taiga drama production would first have one-third of the expected number of scripts finished before shooting begins. Afterwards, audience reception is taken into account as the rest of the series is written and shot. Filming began in September 2016.


Music

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was announced as the series composer on November 16, 2016. By December 6,
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Lang Lang Lang Lang (; born 14 June 1982) is a Chinese pianist who has performed with leading orchestras in China, North America, Europe, and elsewhere. Active since the 1990s, he was the first Chinese pianist to be engaged by the Berlin Philharmonic, ...
were announced as the performers for the series' theme music.


Marketing

On November 16, 2016, the first visual poster for ''Naotora: The Lady Warlord'' was released. A trailer for the drama was later released in December 2016. Kotobukiya released Naotora-themed chopsticks in January 2017 to coincide with the series' broadcast.


TV schedule


Highlight


Soundtracks

*NHK taiga drama ''Naotora: The Lady Warlord'', (January 11, 2017) *NHK taiga drama ''Naotora: The Lady Warlord'', (April 5, 2017) *NHK taiga drama ''Naotora: The Lady Warlord'', (August 23, 2017) *NHK taiga drama ''Naotora: The Lady Warlord'', (December 20, 2017)


See also

*
Sengoku period The was a period in History of Japan, Japanese history of near-constant civil war and social upheaval from 1467 to 1615. The Sengoku period was initiated by the Ōnin War in 1467 which collapsed the Feudalism, feudal system of Japan under the ...


References


External links


Official Site
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Onna Joshu Naotora Taiga drama 2017 Japanese television series debuts 2017 Japanese television series endings Cultural depictions of Akechi Mitsuhide Cultural depictions of Oda Nobunaga Cultural depictions of Tokugawa Ieyasu Cultural depictions of Takeda Shingen Television series set in the 16th century