Dokuganryū Masamune

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 RyÅ« as Date Sanemoto, Shigezane's father
• Teruhiko Saigō as Katakura KojÅ«rō, Masamune's most trusted vassal
• Keiko Takeshita as Katakura Kita, KojÅ«rō's half-sister
• Mikiko Otonashi as Tsuta, KojÅ«rō'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 YÅ«ki Hideyasu
• Renji Ishibashi as YagyÅ« Munenori

Tamura clan

• Akira Kubo as Tamura Kiyoaki, Megohime's father
• Isao Yamagata as Mukaidate Takumi

Others

• Hideji Ōtaki as Kosai Sōitsu
• RyÅ«nosuke Kaneda as Ōkubo Nagayasu
• Ryō Ikebe as Sen no RikyÅ«
• 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
• RyÅ«zaburō Ōtomo as Kubota JÅ«rō
• Shin Aomori as Furukawa Danjō

Television schedule

See also

• Sengoku period

References

External links

• Official Site