Aoi (TV series)

is a 2000 Japanese historical drama television series and the 39th NHK taiga drama. The series respectively stars Masahiko Tsugawa, Toshiyuki Nishida, and Onoe Tatsunosuke II as the first three Tokugawa shōguns. It aired from January 9 to December 17, 2000, and ran for a total of 49 episodes.

Aoi is the first taiga drama to be fully filmed in high definition.

Plot

The story begins with the battle of Sekigahara.

Cast

Tokugawa Shoguns

• Masahiko Tsugawa as Tokugawa Ieyasu - the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate
• Toshiyuki Nishida as Tokugawa Hidetada - the second shogun
• Onoe Tatsunosuke II as Tokugawa Iemitsu - the third shogun
• Takayuki Yamada as young Iemitsu

Tokugawa clan

• Shima Iwashita as Ogō - wife of Hidetada
• Isuzu Yamada as Odai no Kata - mother of Ieyasu
• Kyōko Mitsubayashi as Acha no Tsubone
• Minako Osanai as Oman no Kata
• Michiko Godai as Lady Chaa
• Kirin Kiki as Lady Kasuga
• Miki Sakai as Tokugawa Masako
• Yoko Moriguchi as Okaji no Kata
• Nanako Ōkōchi as Senhime
• Marika Matsumoto as young Senhime
• Fujita Okamoto as YÅ«ki Hideyasu
• Hiroyuki Sakamoto as Matsudaira Tadateru
• Lie Katō as Irohahime
• Hayato Ōshiba as Tokugawa Yorifusa
• Manabu Hamada as Hoshina Masayuki
• Asumi Nakada as Haruhime
• Yukie Nakama as Oraku
• Gen Hongō as Tokugawa Yorinobu
• YÅ«tarō Yamamoto as Nagatomimaru
• Hideyuki Akabane as Tokugawa Yoshinao
• RyÅ«nosuke Kamiki as Gorōtamaru (young Yoshinao)
• Tomoyo Kurosawa as Ichihime

Fudai daimyo

• Shigeru Kōyama as Honda Masanobu
• Ikkei Watanabe as Honda Masazumi - the eldest son of Masanobu
• Joe Shishido as Honda Tadakatsu - one of the Shitennō
• Hiroshi Katsuno as Ii Naomasa - one of the Shitennō
• Kōji Shimizu as Sakakibara Yasumasa - one of the Shitennō
• Taro Ishida as Ōkubo Tadachika
• Takashi Sasano as Torii Mototada
• RyÅ«zō Hayashi as Doi Toshikatsu
• Mizuho Suzuki as Itakura Katsushige
• Masaki Terasoma as Itakura Shigemasa
• Hiroshi Iwasaki as Sakai Tadayo
• Katsumi Chō as Naitō Kiyonari
• Saburo Ishikura as Aoyama Tadatoshi

Toyotomi

• Onoe Kikunosuke V as Toyotomi Hideyori
• Mayumi Ogawa as Yodo-dono - the second wife of Hideyoshi
• Mei Kurokawa as Cha-cha (young Yodo, flashback)
• Mitsuko Kusabue as Kōdai-in - the first wife of Hideyoshi
• Mayuko Fukuda as Yuihime - the daughter of Hideyori
• Nenji Kobayashi as Katagiri Katsumoto
• Naoki Hosaka as Ōno Harunaga
• Shingo Hiramatsu as Oda Uraku
• Teruhiko Saigō as Sanada Yukimura
• Hiroshi Hatanaka as Kimura Shigenari
• Takayuki Sugō as Konishi Yukinaga
• Yoshisada Sakaguchi as Nakamura Kazu'uji

Council of Five Elders

• Kazuo Kitamura as Maeda Toshiie
• Ken Utsui as Mōri Terumoto
• Teruyuki Kagawa as Ukita Hideie
• Tsunehiko Kamijō as Uesugi Kagekatsu

Go-Bugyō

• Tōru Emori as Ishida Mitsunari
• Shinichiro Mikami as Asano Nagamasa
• Kei Satō as Mashita Nagamori
• Toshio Kurosawa as Natsuka Masaie
• Hiroshi Kamiyama as Maeda Gen'i

Ishida family

• Masane Tsukayama as Ishida Masazumi
• Taketoshi Naito as Ishida Masatsugu
• Keiko Takahashi as Orin - wife of Mitsunari
• Isao Natsuyagi as Shima Sakon

Eastern Army

• Ryō Tamura as Tōdō Takatora
• Shinji Yamashita as Kuroda Nagamasa
• Shunsuke Kariya as Katō Kiyomasa
• Keizō Kanie as Fukushima Masanori
• Satoru Saitō as Yamauchi Kazutoyo
• Kei Suma as Date Masamune
• Hatsunori Hasegawa as Maeda Toshinaga
• Tsutomu Isobe as Ikeda Terumasa
• Hideaki Tezuka as Tsuda Shigemoto
• Hiroyuki Watanabe as Asano Yoshinaga
• Shirō Saitō as Tanaka Yoshimasa
• Taishi Horikoshi as Sanada Nobuyuki
• Naoki Takemura as Miyamoto Musashi

Western Army

• Toshiyuki Hosokawa as Ōtani Yoshitsugu
• Akaji Maro as Shimazu Yoshihiro
• YÅ«ichirō Yamaguchi as Shimazu Toyohisa
• Kazuma Suzuki as Kobayakawa Hideaki
• Ichirō Zaitsu as Ankokuji Ekei
• Osami Nabe as Kikkawa Hiroie
• Shinya Ōwada as Tachibana Muneshige

Kyōgoku

• Akira Onodera as Kyōgoku Takatsugu
• Kuriko Namino as Jōkō-in

Hosokawa

• Isao Sasaki as Hosokawa Tadaoki
• Kyōka Suzuki as Hosokawa Gracia
• Shun Oguri as Hosokawa Tadatoshi

Imperial House

• Hiroyuki Kinoshita as Emperor Go-Yōzei
• Yasumasa Ōba as Emperor Go-Mizunoo
• Minori Terada as Nijō Akizane
• Junpei Morita as Sanjōnishi Sane'eda
• Noriko Ogawa as Sadako
• Aki Maeda as young Sadako
• Norihiro Inoue as KajÅ«ji Mitsutoyo
• Kazutoyo Yoshimi as Karasumaru Mitsuhiro

Others

• Nakamura Baijaku II as Tokugawa Mitsukuni, a.k.a. Mito Kōmon
• Kazuyo Asari as Sassa Sukesaburō, a.k.a. Suke-san
• Machiko Washio as Asaka Tanpaku, a.k.a. Kaku-san
• Terence O'Brien as William Adams, a.k.a. Miura Anjin
• Tim Knowles as Richard Cocks
• Yatsuko Tan'ami as Kenshō-in, Takeda Shingen's daughter
• Natsuko Migiwa as Maeda Matsu
• Mikio Shimizu as Oda Nobukatsu
• Noriko Shōji as a reporter (herself)
• San'yÅ«tei Rakutarō
• Ryunosuke Kaneda as Tenkai
• Hiroshi Ōkōchi as Konchiin SÅ«den

Staff

• Music : Taro Iwashiro
• Historical research : Shinzaburō Ōishi
• Architectural research : Kiyoshi Hirai
• Clothing research : Kiyoko Koizumi
• Sword fight arranger : Kunishirō Hayashi

TV schedule

References

External links

• NHK website