is a 1987 Japanese historical television series. It is the 25th

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''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 was a Japanese ''daimyō'' during the Azuchi–Momoyama period through the early Edo period. Heir to a long line of powerful feudal lords in the Tōhoku region, he went on to found the modern-day city of Sendai. An outstanding tactician, he w ...

, from before his birth until his death.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi , otherwise known as and , was a Japanese samurai and ''daimyō'' (feudal lord) of the late Sengoku period, Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods and regarded as the second "Great Unifier" of Japan.Richard Holmes, The World Atlas of Warfare: ...

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

, 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

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, 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 was a kirishitan Japanese samurai and retainer of Date Masamune, the daimyō of Sendai. He was of Japanese imperial descent with ancestral ties to Emperor Kanmu. Other names include Philip Francis Faxicura, Felipe Francisco Faxicura, and Ph ...

*Dai Nagasawa as Nakajima Munemoto

Mogami clan

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*Imafuku Masao as Mogami Yoshimori * Kaori Sakagami as Komahime, Yoshiaki's second daughter

Toyotomi clan

* Shintaro Katsu as

, the ruler of Japan *

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as Nene * Kanako Higuchi as

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, Hideyori's mother * Eiji Okuda as

Ishida Mitsunari was a Japanese samurai and military commander of the late Sengoku period of Japan. He is probably best remembered as the commander of the Western army in the Battle of Sekigahara following the Azuchi–Momoyama period of the 16th century. He ...

*Kisuke Yamashita as

Toyotomi Hideyori was the son and designated successor of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the general who united all of Japan toward the end of the Sengoku period. His mother, Yodo-dono, was the niece of Oda Nobunaga. Early life Born in 1593, he was Hideyoshi's sec ...

, Hideyoshi's son * Maiko Itō as Senhime * Yoichi Hayashi as Asano Nagamasa * Takanori Jinnai as

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* 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 was a Japanese warlord (''daimyō'') of Ibaraki, in the Azuchi–Momoyama period through early Edo period. In his youth he was famed as one of the Seven Spears of Shizugatake, during the Battle of Shizugatake in May 1583. Biography Katsumoto ...

* Nobuyuki Katsube as Gotō Matabei *Makoto Yuasa as Maeda Gen'i

Tokugawa clan

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Tokugawa Ieyasu Tokugawa Ieyasu (born Matsudaira Takechiyo; 31 January 1543 – 1 June 1616) was the founder and first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was the third of the three "Gr ...

, 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

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*Junichi Nitta as

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* 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 was a prominent weapons merchant in the Japanese port town of Sakai, and master of the Japanese tea ceremony. He was also known by the names Imai Hiratsuna and Imai Kanehisa. Sōkun was the son of weapons merchant and tea master Imai Sōkyū, ...

*José Cardini as Luis Sotelo *Joe Grace as

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* 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

References

External links

Official Site
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dokuganryu Masamune Taiga drama 1987 Japanese television series debuts 1987 Japanese television series endings Cultural depictions of Date Masamune Cultural depictions of Tokugawa Ieyasu Cultural depictions of Toyotomi Hideyoshi Television shows written by James Miki Television shows based on Japanese novels Television series set in the 16th century Television series set in the 17th century