is a 1974 Japanese television series. It is the 12th
NHK
, also known by its Romanization of Japanese, romanized initialism NHK, is a Japanese public broadcasting, public broadcaster. It is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television licence, television license fee.
NHK ope ...
taiga drama
is the name NHK gives to the annual year-long historical drama television series it broadcasts in Japan. Beginning in 1963 with the black-and-white ''Hana no Shōgai'', starring kabuki actor Onoe Shoroku II and Awashima Chikage, the network regul ...
.
Tetsuya Watari
born (December 28, 1941 – August 10, 2020) was a Japanese film, stage, and television actor.
Life
He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University. Watari belonged to the karate club at university. He made his screen debut in 1964, in Isamu Kosu ...
was forced to step down from the role of
Katsu Kaishū
Count , born , best known by his nickname , was a Japanese statesman, naval engineer and military commander during the late Tokugawa shogunate and early Meiji period.
Kaishū was a nickname which he took from a piece of calligraphy (Kaishū S ...
because of his illness so he appeared in only the first 9 episodes.
The average viewing rating was 24.2%, with the highest peaking at 30.9%. Only episodes 6, 7, 32, 35, 37, 38, 39, and 44 have been discovered to still exist.
Story
Katsu Kaishū
Count , born , best known by his nickname , was a Japanese statesman, naval engineer and military commander during the late Tokugawa shogunate and early Meiji period.
Kaishū was a nickname which he took from a piece of calligraphy (Kaishū S ...
deals with end of the
Edo period
The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...
. Based on
Kan Shimozawa
was a Japanese novelist and historical writer best known for originating the character Zatoichi. He was awarded the Kikuchi Kan Prize in 1962 for a series of works set at the end of the Tokugawa period and the Meiji era.
Biography
Kan Shimozawa w ...
's novels "Katsu Kaishū ".
The story chronicles the life of
Katsu Kaishū
Count , born , best known by his nickname , was a Japanese statesman, naval engineer and military commander during the late Tokugawa shogunate and early Meiji period.
Kaishū was a nickname which he took from a piece of calligraphy (Kaishū S ...
.
Cast
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Tetsuya Watari
born (December 28, 1941 – August 10, 2020) was a Japanese film, stage, and television actor.
Life
He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University. Watari belonged to the karate club at university. He made his screen debut in 1964, in Isamu Kosu ...
(ep.1-9) /
Hiroki Matsukata (ep.10-) as
Katsu Kaishū
Count , born , best known by his nickname , was a Japanese statesman, naval engineer and military commander during the late Tokugawa shogunate and early Meiji period.
Kaishū was a nickname which he took from a piece of calligraphy (Kaishū S ...
*
Onoe Shoroku II :
Katsu Kokichi
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Reiko Ohara
was a Japanese actress. She is best known for her roles in the Taiga drama, ''taiga'' dramas ''Kasuga the Court Lady'' (1989) and ''Tokugawa Yoshinobu'' (1998), television drama ''Rikon Tomodachi'' (1980), and film ''Ohan (film), Ohan'' (1984). ...
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Yoshiko Kuga
was a Japanese actress. She starred in '' The Woman in the Rumor'' (1954), ''Equinox Flower'' (1958), and '' An Inlet of Muddy Water'' (1953). She won a Mainichi Film Award in 1954, and a Blue Ribbon Award in 1956. She was the wife of actor ...
: Katsu Nobu
* Mitsuko Oka : Katsu Tami
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Akiko Nishina : Ito
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Naoko Otani
is a Japanese actress. She made her screen debut in '' The Human Bullet'' while still a high school student, and became popular for her role in the NHK Asadora
, colloquially known as , is a serialized, 15 minutes per episode, Japanese telev ...
: Jun
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Rokkō Toura as
Takano Chōei
was a prominent scholar of ''Rangaku'' (western science) during the Bakumatsu period in Japan.
Life
Chōei was born as Gotō Kyōsai, the third son of Gotō Sōsuke, a middle-ranking samurai in Mizusawa Domain of Mutsu Province in what is now ...
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Hiroshi Fujioka
, better known by his stage name , is a Japanese actor. He is known for playing the hero Takeshi Hongo in the tokusatsu superhero series ''Kamen Rider'', and later the Sega Saturn mascot Segata Sanshiro (jokingly revealed to be Takeshi Hongo hi ...
as
Sakamoto Ryōma
was a Japanese ''samurai'', a '' shishi'' and influential figure of the ''Bakumatsu,'' and establishment of the Empire of Japan in the late Edo period.
Sakamoto was a low-ranking ''samurai'' from the Tosa Domain on Shikoku and became an acti ...
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Renji Ishibashi
, born is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 15th Hochi Film Award
The are film-specific prizes awarded by the '' Hochi Shimbun''.
Categories
*Best Picture
*Best International Picture
*Best Animated Picture ...
:
Yoshida Shōin
*
Tōru Emori : Sugi
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Joe Shishido
was a Japanese actor recognizable for his intense, eccentric yakuza film roles. He appeared in some 300 films but is best known in the West for his performance in the cult film ''Branded to Kill'' (1967). In Japan, he is also known by the nickna ...
as
Yamaoka Tesshū
, also known as Ono Tetsutarō or Yamaoka Tetsutarō, was a famous samurai of the Bakumatsu period, who played an important role in the Meiji Restoration. He is also noted as the founder of the '' Itto Shoden Muto-ryu'' school of swordsmanship. ...
*
Masahiko Tsugawa
, born Masahiko Katō (加藤 雅彦 ''Katō Masahiko''; January 2, 1940 – August 4, 2018) was a Japanese actor and director.
Career
Tsugawa was born January 2, 1940, in Kyoto, Japan. After acting as a child, he made his major debut at 16 in t ...
as
Tokugawa Yoshinobu
Kazoku, Prince was the 15th and last ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan. He was part of a movement which aimed to reform the aging shogunate, but was ultimately unsuccessful. He resigned his position as shogun in late 1867, while ai ...
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Katsumasa Uchida : Imuda Shōhei
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Asao Sano as Tetsugoro
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Takeo Chii : Iwajiro
* Ysohiko Kayama : Fude
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Hideko Yoshida
is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 14th Hochi Film Award for '' Shaso''.
Filmography
* '' Neo Tokyo'' (1989)
* '' Shaso'' (1989)
* ''The Pillow Book'' (1996)
* ''Will to Live'' (1999)
* '' By Player'' (20 ...
: Oshino
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Etsuko Ichihara : Otose
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Daisuke Katō
was a Japanese actor. He appeared in over 200 films, including Akira Kurosawa's ''Seven Samurai'', ''Rashomon'', ''Yojimbo'', and ''Ikiru''. He also worked repeatedly for noted directors such as Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse and Kenji Mizoguchi.
...
: Shinmon Tatsugoro
* Daijiro Harada : Chiba Jyutaro
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Tadashi Yokouchi
is a Japanese actor. Born in Dalian, Kwantung Leased Territory, he graduated from high school in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. A member of the 13th group of actors and actresses trained at the Haiyū-za, he counts Tetsuo Ishidate, To ...
: Hirosawa
*
Toru Abe :
Itakura Katsukiyo
*
Shōgo Shimada : old guy
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Kōji Nanbara
was a Japanese actor. He was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. In 1951, he signed with Daiei film company. and made his film debut with ''Kamikaze Tokkotai''. Mostly famous later in his career for playing villains, he began acting in the 1950s u ...
: Mitsukuri Genpo
* Akira Yamauchi : Kozone Kendō
*
Yoshio Tsuchiya
was a Japanese actor who appeared in such films as Toshio Matsumoto's surreal ''Bara No Soretsu'' (a.k.a. '' Funeral Parade of Roses'') and Akira Kurosawa's ''Seven Samurai'' (as the firebrand farmer Rikichi) and '' Red Beard'', and Kihachi Okam ...
: Kimurazusho Yoshitake
* Takao Itō :
Takechi Hanpeita
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Hisashi Igawa : Matsumoto Ryojun
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Tatsuya Fuji
is a Japanese actor. He was born in Beijing and raised in Yokohama. In 1962, Fuji joined Nikkatsu Company and began his acting career with small roles in Nikkatsu film. In 1968, Fuji married actress Izumi Ashikawa. He gained popularity throug ...
as
Hijikata Toshizō
was a Japanese swordsman of the ''Bakumatsu'' period and of the ''Shinsengumi''. As Vice-Commander, he served the Tokugawa Shogunate and co-led his group in its resistance against the imperial rule brought about by the Meiji Restoration. He ...
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Tsunehiko Watase as
Tanaka Shinbei
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Kenichi Hagiwara
was a Japanese singer and actor.
Music career
Also known as Sho-Ken, he was the lead singer of The Tempters, which was a blues-rock band connected to the Group Sounds scene, and gained big hits in the late 1960s. Hagiwara was known for his goo ...
as
Okada Izō
was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period, feared as one of the four most notable assassins of the Bakumatsu period. He was a member of (Tosa Imperialism party, a loyalist clique of Tosa) in his hometown, Tosa Domain. Izō and Tanaka Sh ...
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Keiju Kobayashi
was a Japanese actor who appeared in 253 films in a career spanning 67 years.
Born in Gunma Prefecture, he began acting at the Nikkatsu studio after dropping out of Nihon University and made his film debut in 1942. In 1956 he moved to Toho film ...
: Okubo Tadahiro
References
External links
Taiga drama Katsu Kaishū NHK{{Taiga drama
1974 Japanese television series debuts
1974 Japanese television series endings
Taiga drama
1970s drama television series
Jidaigeki television series
Cultural depictions of Tokugawa Yoshinobu