Hideyoshi (TV series)

is a 1996 Japanese historical television series. It is the 35th NHK taiga drama television series.

Plot

The story chronicles the life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

Production

Production Credits

• Original – Taichi Sakaiya
• Music – Reijirō Koroku
• Titling – Hisaya Morishige
• Narrator – Etsuko Ichihara, Ryuji Miyamoto
• Historical research – Tetsuo Owada
• Sword fight arranger - Kunishirō Hayashi

Cast

Starring role

• Naoto Takenaka as Hideyoshi

Toyotomi clan

• Yasuko Sawaguchi as One - wife of Hideyoshi
• Etsuko Ichihara as Naka - mother of Hideyoshi
• Ichiro Zaitsu as Chikuami - stepfather of Hideyoshi
• Masanobu Takashima as Toyotomi Hidenaga - younger brother of Hideyoshi
• Naomi Hosokawa as Sato - younger sister of Hideyoshi
• Takako Matsu as Cha-cha - concubine of Hideyoshi
• Hiroyuki Sanada as Ishida Mitsunari
• Shun Oguri as Sakichi (young Mitsunari)
• Atsushi Onita as Hachisuka Masakatsu
• Ikkō Furuya as Takenaka Hanbei
• Masatō Ibu as Kuroda Kanbei
• Yosuke Asari as young Ukita Hideie

Oda clan

• Tetsuya Watari as Oda Nobunaga
• Hiroaki Murakami as Akechi Mitsuhide
• Narimi Arimori as Tsumaki Hiroko - wife of Mitsuhide
• Yōko Nogiwa as Omaki no kata - mother of Mitsuhide
• Eriko Tamura as Akechi Tama
• Mitsuko Yorichika as Oichi - younger sister of Nobunaga
• Akira Nakao as Shibata Katsuie
• Yasunori Danta as Takigawa Kazumasu
• Saburō Shinoda as Niwa Nagahide
• Masahiro Matsuoka as Mori Ranmaru
• Hideo Takamatsu as Hayashi Sado no Kami
• Samy Pop as Yasuke
• Junkichi Orimoto as Sakuma Nobumori
• Toru Watanabe as Maeda Toshiie
• Azusa Nakamura as Maeda Matsu

Tokugawa clan

• Masahiko Nishimura as Tokugawa Ieyasu
• Joe Shishido as Honda Masanobu
• Naoya Makoto as Ishikawa Kazumasa
• RyÅ« Manatsu as Sakai Tadatsugu
• Maki Ishikawa as Lady Tsukiyama
• Shin'ichirō Satō as Matsudaira Nobuyasu

Others

• Hidekazu Akai as Ishikawa Goemon - best friend of Hideyoshi
• Mayo Suzukaze as Otaki - wife of Goemon
• Tatsuya Nakadai as Sen no RikyÅ« - a tea master
• Kōji Tamaki as Ashikaga Yoshiaki - the 15th and last shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate
• Aki Yashiro as Osen
• Osamu Saka as Satomura Joha
• Terry O'Brien as Luís Fróis
• Masakane Yonekura as Imagawa Yoshimoto
• RyÅ«nosuke Kaneda as Saitō Dōsan
• Kiyoshi Nakajō as Ankokuji Ekei

TV schedule

Broadcasting in the United States

Circa 1997–98, New Jersey Network would air the show subtitled in English on Sunday evenings at 11:00pm EST. However, there is no physical domestic release of this series on VHS or DVD.

References

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