Complete (J-Drama) Yoshitsune

Complete (J-Drama) Yoshitsune

Title: 義経

Title (romaji): Yoshitsune

Genre: Jidaigeki renzoku

Episodes: 49

Broadcast network: NHK

Broadcast period: 2005, January 09 to 2005, December 11

Air time: Sunday 20:00

Synopsis

The 44th NHK Taiga Drama is about the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源 義経) (1159 - May 17, 1189) was a late Heian and early Kamakura general of the Minamoto clan of Japan. Yoshitsune was the ninth son of Minamoto no Yoshitomo. His older brother Minamoto no Yoritomo founded the Kamakura shogunate.

The historical Taiga drama for 2005 is a life story of Minamoto Yoshitsune, popular historical figure in Japan who is known to have been an excellent battle commander in the very end of the Heian period. Yoshitsune, a member of the Genji clan, contributed greatly to the clan's victory over their rival Heike clan and to establishment of his brother's first shogunate in history. Based on a novel by Tomiko Miyao, the drama portrays the life of the "super hero" focusing on the rivalry and sympathy between Yoshitsune and Tairano Kiyomori, the head of the Heike clan.

Cast

Takizawa Hideaki as Minamoto Yoshitsune / Kuro / Shanao

Kamiki Ryunosuke as Ushikawa (young Shanao)

Matsudaira Ken as Musashibo Benkei

Nanbara Kiyotaka as Ise Saburo

Ujiki Tsuyoshi as Suruga Jiro

Ito Atsushi as Kisanta

Kaito Ken as Sato Tadanobu

Miyauchi Atsushi as Sato Tsugunobu

Ishihara Yoshizumi as Minamoto Noriyori

Oguri Shun as Kajiwara Kagesue

Ishihara Satomi as Shizuka

Ueto Aya as Utsubo

Uehara Misa as Tekona

Tsurumi Shingo as Taira Munemori

Abe Hiroshi as Taira Tomomori

Kato Kazuko as Muneko

Hosokawa Shigeki as Taira Shigehira

Kashu Toshiki as Taira Koremori

Ozawa Yukiyoshi as Kiso Yoshinaka

Koike Eiko as Tomoe

Zaizen Naomi as Hojo Masako

Osugi Ren as Minamoto Yukiie

Nakao Akira as Kajiwara Kagetoki

Kobayashi Nenji as Hojo Tokimasa

Matsuzaka Keiko as Tokiko

Nakai Kiichi as Minamoto Yoritomo

Hira Mikijiro as Ex-Emperor Go-Shirakawa

Natsuki Mari as Tango

Kusakari Masao as Taira Tomoyasu

Nakashima Tomoko as Chidori

Shiraishi Kayoko as Otoku (Narrator)

Inamori Izumi as Tokiwa

Natsukawa Yui as Akirakeiko

Moriguchi Yoko as Tsuneko

Toda Naho as Sukeko

Manda Hisako as Akane

Himeno Keiji

Watari Tetsuya as Taira Kiyomori

Matsushita Naomi as Kamenomae

Koizumi Kotaro as Taira Sukemori

Ichikawa Sadanji as Kichiji

Hirano Tadahiko as Taira Morikuni

Watanabe Ikkei as Fujiwara Yasuhira

Nagashima Kazushige as Fujiwara Kunihira

Goto Maki as Yoshiko

Takahashi Hideki as Fujiwara Hidehira

Tanba Tetsuro as Minamoto Yorimasa

Umezu Sakae as Old Man Suzaku

Nakagoshi Noriko as Tokuko

Ohashi Goro as Taira Tokitada

Katsumura Masanobu as Taira Shigemori

Tanaka Minako as Maki

Shiomi Sansei as Kakunichi Risshi

Kawahara Sabu as Kumasaka Chohan

Nakae Yuri as Shigeko

Kitamura Yukiya as Gotari

Niki Terumi as Nun Hikino

Miura Koichi as Taira Yorimori

Minakaze Yoko as Ikenozenni Muneko

Osugi Ren as Shingu Juro Yoshimori

Miwa Akihiro as Kiichi Hogen

Ebisu Yoshikazu as Ichijo Naganari

Kato Masaya as Minamoto Yoshitomo

Ito Takahiro

Kimura Akira

Imai Tsubasa as Nasu no Yoichi

Tokoshima Yoshiko

Musaka Naomasa

Tomioka Ryo

Takasugi Ko