Complete (J-Drama) Atsu-hime

Complete (J-Drama) Atsu-hime

Title: 篤姫

Title (romaji): Atsu-hime / Atsuhime / Atsu Hime

Format: Renzoku

Genre: Jidaigeki

Episodes: 50

Broadcast network: NHK

Broadcast period: 2008, January 06 to 2008, December 14

Air time: Sunday 20:00

Synopsis

Drama is a life story of Atsuhime who was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, then called Satsuma, and became the wife of Tokugawa Iesada, the 13th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. She accedes to the highest rank in Ooku, the inner palace of the Edo castle where women related to the reigning shogun resided. Iesada dies soon after their marriage and Atsuhime assumes the name Tenshoin at the age of 23. She exerts herself for the Tokugawa clan and for the nation during the upheaval in the Meiji Restoration, headed by those from Satsuma. In 1835, Shimazu Tadatake, head of the Imaizumi-Shimazu family of Satsuma clan, and Oyuki are blessed with a long-awaited daughter, Okatsu, who later becomes Atsuhime. She grows up as a tomboy, full of wonders, yet warm-hearted. Meanwhile, as Satsuma clan is under going financial reform, headed by chief retainer Zusho, Tadatake is punished for being lenient with farmers. Okatsu, unable to absorb why her father is punished, charges over to Zusho.

Cast

Heroine

Miyazaki Aoi as Okatsu / Atsu-hime (Tenshoin)

Nagai Honoka (永井穂花) as Okatsu (child)

Iwamoto Chinami (岩本千波) as Okatsu (child)

Imaizumi Shimazu Family

Nagatsuka Kyozo as Shimazu Tadatake

Higuchi Kanako as Oyuki

Okada Yoshinori as Shimazu Tadayuki

Sakai Kazuhisa (坂井和久) as Tadayuki (child)

Sasaki Sumie as Kikumoto

Umeno Yasukiyo (梅野泰靖) as Kurikawa Magoroku

Shoji Yusuke (少路勇介) as Takuma Harumichi

Kobayashi Asako (小林麻子) as Shino

Tanahashi Sachiyo (棚橋幸代) as Mine

Kono Yasuro (河野安郎) as Shimazu Tadafuyu

Fujisaki Go (藤崎剛) as Tadafuyu (child)

Matsuo Katsuhisa (松尾勝久) as Shimazu Hisayuki

Tanaka Oga (田中碧海) as Hisayuki (child)

Satsuma Feudal Clan

Shimazu Family

Takahashi Hideki as Shimazu Nariakira

Yo Kimiko as Hisa-hime

Yamaguchi Yuichiro as Shimazu Tadayuki (Hisamitsu)

Nagato Hiroyuki as Shimazu Narioki

Suzukaze Mayo as Oyura

Nakagawa Shingo as Shimazu Tadayoshi

Yoshitaka Yuriko as Otetsu

Kaji Masaki as Shimazu Ukon

Kondo Takatada (近藤隆正) as Shimazu Hironosuke

Motokawa Ransho (本川嵐翔) as Shimazu Tokunosuke

Aka Marino (阿嘉真理乃) as Osada

Ebisu Reina (戎怜菜) as Ohiro

Watanabe Takuto as Torajumaru (Shimazu Chujiro)

Iida Shion (飯田汐音) as Teruhime

Elite Clan Members

Eita as Kimotsuki Naogoro / Komatsu Tatewaki

Sawamura Ikki as Komatsu Kiyomichi

Tomosaka Rie as Ochika

Harada Natsuki as Kotohana (Okoto)

Enoki Takaaki as Kimotsuki Kaneyoshi

Hira Mikijiro as Zusho Hirosato

Takahashi Taira (高橋平) as Komatsu Kiyonao

Nakamura Shuga (中村柊芽) as Komatsu Yasuchiyo (young Kiyonao)

Nakayama Katsumi (中山克己) as Shimazu Bungo

Asanuma Shinpei (浅沼晋平) as Shimazu Bungo

Tengenji Ryu (天現寺竜) as Shimazu Shoso

Ito Hiromu (伊藤紘) as Komatsu Kiyoatsu

Minami Kazue (南一恵) as Masa

Misawa Akemi (三沢明美) as Kinu

Nagasawa Dai (長沢大) as a Shimazu Hoki

Okamoto Kotaro (岡本光太郎) as Kawakami Chikugo

Yamamoto Ryuji as Tateyama Buhee

Sakabe Fumiaki (坂部文昭) as Shimazu Hisakaze

Honda Kiyozumi (本田清澄) as Niro Hisanori

Uehara Kensuke (植原健介) as Tanimura Masatake

Lower Clan Members

Ozawa Yukiyoshi as Saigo Kichinosuke (Takamori)

Harada Taizo as Okubo Shosuke (Ichizo / Toshimichi)

Matoba Koji as Arima Shinshichi

Maya Kyoko as Fuku

Owada Shinya as Okubo Toshiyo

Miyake Hiroki as Ijichi Masaharu

Hirayama Hiroyuki as Arimura Shunsai / Kaieda Nobuyoshi

Mizutani Momosuke as Saigo Shingo (Judo)

Shundo Mitsutoshi (俊藤光利) as Oyama Tsunayoshi

Tanoue Koukichi (田上晃吉) as Arimura Yusuke

Endo Yuya as Arimura Jizaemon

Takechi Kenji (武智健二) as Narahara Kihachiro

Majima Kohei (真島公平) as Saigo Kichijiro

Suzuki Heitaro (鈴木兵太郎) as Kichijiro

Yano Yoshito (矢野義人) as Michishima Gorobee

Ishikawa Kenji (石川賢二) as Hashiguchi Kichinojo

Kurihara Hitomi (栗原瞳) as Suma

Takamatsu Iku (高松いく) as Mine

Go Shiro (五王四郎) as Saigo Kichibe

Moriwaki Yuki (森脇由紀) as Suga

Takaoka Masako (高岡雅子) as Masako

Koizumi Tatsuhiko (小泉龍彦) as Saigo Ryuemon

Murofushi Yukie (室伏由紀江) as Koto

Aoki Kotoko (青木琴子) as Taka

Ladies-in-Waiting

Sato Aiko as Onoshima

Itaya Yuka as Hirokawa

Hidari Tokie (左時枝) as Takayama

Kitahara Sawako as Fujino

Matsuda Miho (松田美保) as Yuki

Oishi Yoshimi (大石好美) as Hisa

Shogunate

Shogun's Family

Sakai Masato as Tokugawa Iesachi (Iesada)

Matsuda Shota as Tokugawa Yoshitomi (Iemochi)

Hira Takehiro as Hitotsubashi Yoshinobu / Tokugawa Yoshinobu

Saiki Shigeru as Tokugawa Ieyoshi

Yoshitake Reo (吉武怜朗) as Tokugawa Iesato

Kobayashi Kaito (小林海人) as Tayasu Kamenosuke (young child)

Kisaichi Yuta (私市夢太) as Tayasu Kamenosuke (child)

Ooku

Horikita Maki as Princess Kazunomiya Chikako / Seikanin

Matsuzaka Keiko as Ikushima

Inamori Izumi as Takiyama

Takahata Atsuko as Honjuin

Wakamura Mayumi as Kangyoin

Nakamura Meiko as Niwata Tsuguko

Tsuruta Mayu as Shiga / Hokenin

Nakajima Tomoko as Shigeno

Takahashi Yumiko as Karahashi

Iwai Yumi (岩井友見) as Utahashi

Miyaji Masako as Hatsuse

Totani Tomo (戸谷友) as Tokiwai

Takemoto Satoko (竹本聡子) as Tsuchimikado Fujiko

Kodama Ai (こだま愛) as Hanazono

Abe Asami as Tokiwa

Hasegawa Manami (長谷川愛美) as Konoe Hiroko

Kawata Shinobu (川田しのぶ) as the machijoro

Shogun's Advisors

Kusakari Masao as Abe Masahiro

Nakamura Baijaku as Ii Naosuke

Tatsumi Takuro as Hotta Masayoshi

Shirai Akira as Ando Nobumasa

Matsuzawa Kazuyuki as Matsudaira Tadakata

Shiga Kotaro as Kuze Hirochika

Sakuragi Kenichi (櫻木健一) as Wakisaka Yasuori

Tanimoto Hajime (谷本一) as Manabe Akikatsu

Nishida Seishiro (西田聖志郎) as Itakura Katsukiyo

Ijuin Hachiro (伊集院八朗) as Ogasawara Nagamichi

Sato Masahiro (佐藤正宏) as Matsudaira Yasuhide

Shogun's Retainers

Kitaoji Kinya as Katsu Rintaro (Kaishuu)

Katsuji Ryo as John Manjiro

Fujiki Takashi (藤木孝) as Kugai Inaba-no-Kami

Kobayashi Katsuya (小林勝也) as Kimura Settsu-no-Kami

Suzuki Soma (鈴木綜馬) as Enomoto Takeaki

Nomura Shinji (野村信次) as Fukaya Morifusa

Honda Shin (本多晋) as Kawaji Toshiakira

Yoshimitsu Ryota (吉満涼太) as Inoue Kiyonao

Yoshimi Yukihiro (吉見幸洋) as Iwase Tadanari

Tokui Yuu as Ito Genboku

Other Clansmen and Patriots

Lords

Emori Toru as Tokugawa Nariaki

Yajima Kenichi as Matsudaira Yoshinaga (Shungaku)

Morita Junpei as Date Munenari

Shimura Togo as Matsudaira Katamori

Kon Takuya (今拓哉) as Yamanouchi Yodo

Happa Ikki (八波一起) as Toda Mitsuhisa

Retainers

Obayashi Takeshi as Nagano Shume (Yoshitoki)

Suzuki Junpei (スズキジュンペイ) as Kido Takayoshi

Okamoto Koei (岡本高英) as Ito Shunsuke

Yoshino Yasuomi (吉野容臣) as Inoue Monta

Nakayama Masei as Hashimoto Sanai

Sato Akira (佐藤旭) as Utsugi Rokunojo

Toyoshima Minoru (豊嶋稔) as Nagaoka Kenmotsu

Akazaki Hikaru (赤崎ひかる) as Ugai Kichizaemon

Azuma Takeshi (東武志) as Kusaka Genzui

Nihashi Susumu (二橋進) as Miyoshi Shinzo

Furumoto Shinnosuke (古本新乃輔) as Goto Shojiro

Other Patriotic Figures

Tamaki Hiroshi as Sakamoto Ryoma

Ichikawa Mikako as Oryu

Takahashi Choei (高橋長英) as Gessho

Sato Masayuki (佐藤政之) as Hirano Kuniomi

Amahara Masamichi (天原まさみち) as Nakaoka Shintaro

The Imperial Family

Togi Hideki (東儀秀樹) as Emperor Komei

Takezai Terunosuke as Prince Arisugawa Taruhito

The Konoe Clan

Shunputei Koasa (春風亭小朝) as Konoe Tadahiro

Hoshi Yuriko as Muraoka

Mikami Ichiro (三上市朗) as Konoe Tadafusa

Hayakawa Yuri (早川ゆり) as Ikuhime

Yamamoto Ikuko (山本郁子) as Kameoka

Nobles

Kataoka Tsurutaro as Iwakura Tomomi

Kimura Gen (木村元) as Ohara Shigetomi

Isobe Tsutomu (磯部勉) as Kujo Hisatada

Mitsueda Akihiko (光枝明彦) as Takatsukasa Masamichi

Era Jun (江良潤) as Takatsukasa Sukehiro

Wakamatsu Yasuhiro (若松泰弘) as Anegakoji Kintomo

Kanzaki Tomotaka (神崎智孝) as Nakamura Tadayasu

Kohama Masahiro (小浜正寛) as Sanjo Sanetomi

Toriki Motohiro (鳥木元博) as Hirohashi Mitsushige (buke tenso)

Other Cast

Foreign Figures

Nino A (ニーノA) as Matthew Perry

Blake Crawford (ブレイク・クロフォード) as Townsend Harris

マキシム・ツェリッシェフ as Henry Heusken

Christopher Mae (クリストファー・メイ) as Charles Lennox Richardson

Haruka Orth (ハルカ・オース) as Margaret Borradail

Garthe Nelson (ガース・ネルソン) as William Marshall

Dennis Longley (デニス・ロングリー) as Woodthope Clark

Ian Moore (イアン・ムーア) as captain of the Morrison

Sasaki Yohei (佐々木洋平) as Shozo

Kitayama Yuichiro (北山雄一郎) as a Jusaburo

Other Figures

Maro Akaji as the shadow

Croquette (コロッケ) as the newsboy Taisuke

Mitani Masato (三谷昌登) as the newsboy Senkichi