Shinsengumi!

is a 2004 Taiga drama historical fiction television series produced by Japanese broadcaster NHK. It was a popular drama about the Shinsengumi, a Japanese special police force from the Bakumatsu period.

Actors include Koji Yamamoto, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Joe Odagiri, and Shingo Katori of the pop idol group SMAP. It was written by Japanese director and playwright, Kōki Mitani.

Staff

• Original: Kōki Mitani
• Music: Takayuki Hattori
• Titling: Tansetsu Ogino
• Narrator: Yasuo Kodera
• Historical research: Manabu Ōishi, Tatsuya Yamamura
• Architectural research: Sei Hirai
• Clothing research: Kiyoko Koizumi
• Production coordinator: Kōji Kikkawa
• Casting: Kazuhiko Itō
• Sword fight arranger : Kunishirō Hayashi

Cast

Shinsengumi

• Shingo Katori as Kondō Isami
• Kōji Yamamoto as Hijikata Toshizō
• Tatsuya Fujiwara as Okita Sōji
• Joe Odagiri as Saitō Hajime
• Nakamura Kantarō II as Tōdō Heisuke
• Tarō Yamamoto as Harada Sanosuke
• Masato Sakai as Yamanami Keisuke
• Tomomitsu Yamaguchi as Nagakura Shinpachi
• Takashi Kobayashi as Inoue Genzaburō
• Shoei as Shimada Kai
• Jun Hashimoto as Yamazaki Susumu
• Koji Ohkura as Kawai Kisaburo
• Norito Yashima as Takeda Kanryuusai

Seichū-rōshi gumi

• Kōichi Satō as Serizawa Kamo
• Kazuyuki Aijima as Niimi Nishiki
• Tadashi Sakata as Hirayama Gorō
• GōshÅ« as Hirama JÅ«suke

Itō-dōjō party

• Shōsuke Tanihara as Itō Kashitarō
• Masato Obara as Kanō Washio

Aizu Domain

• Michitaka Tsutsui as Matsudaira Katamori
• Kenichi Yajima as Hirosawa Tomijirō
• Yasuyoshi Hara as Teshirogi Suguemon

Tosa Domain

• Yōsuke Eguchi as Sakamoto Ryōma
• Hiroki Miyake as Mochizuki Kameyata
• Nozomu Masuzawa as Nakaoka Shintarō

Chōshū Domain

• Ken Ishiguro as Kido Takayoshi
• Hiroyuki Ikeuchi as Kusaka Genzui

Satsuma Domain

• Takashi Ukaji as Saigō Takamori
• Yamato Yasumura as Ōkubo Toshimichi
• Takato Gohō as Kuroda Ryōsuke

Tokugawa shogunate

• Tomohiko Imai as Tokugawa Yoshinobu – the last shogun
• Tsuyoshi Ihara as Sasaki Tadasaburō
• Hideki Noda as Katsu KaishÅ«
• Isao Sasaki as Uchiyama Hikojirō
• Tsuyoshi Kusanagi as Enomoto Takeaki
• Tetsushi Tanaka as Matsumoto Ryōjun

Imperial House

• Nakamura Fukusuke IX as Emperor Kōmei – the 121st emperor
• YÅ«ji Nakamura as Iwakura Tomomi

Others

• Yasuko Sawaguchi as Okita Mitsu - Okita Sōji's eldest sister
• Kōji Ishizaka as Sakuma Shōzan
• Tetsurō Sagawa as Onogawa Hidegorō
• Mainoumi ShÅ«hei as Kumakawa Kuwajirō – a sumo wrestler
• Daishi Nobuyuki as Kurogami – a sumo wrestler
• Jay Kabira as Henry Heusken
• Marty Kuehnert as Townsend Harris
• YÅ«ka as Okō
• Asahi Kurizuka as Hijikata Tamejirō, Toshizō's older brother
• Rei Kikukawa as Ikumatsu

References

External links

• SHINSENGUMI 新選組 Shinsengumi Website