Dokuganryū Masamune

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Genre Historical, Jidaigeki Opening theme NHK Symphony Orchestra Country of origin Japan Final episode date December 1987 Number of episodes 50 Written by Jêmusu Miki		Directed by Katsuji Nakamura Composer(s) Shin’ichirō Ikebe First episode date January 1987 Network NHK Narrated by Seiji Kasai

Starring Ken Watanabe Tomokazu Miura Teruhiko Saigō Junko Sakurada Yasuko Sawaguchi Hiroyuki Sanada Kanako Higuchi Eiji Okuda Hironobu Nomura Chosuke Ikariya Takanori Jinnai Hiroshi Katsuno Yoichi Hayashi Shigeru Kōyama Mikiko Otonashi Renji Ishibashi Raita Ryū Kei Tani Ryūnosuke Kaneda Ryō Ikebe Isao Yamagata Kumiko Akiyoshi Hideji Ōtaki Yoshio Harada Kaoru Yachigusa Masahiko Tsugawa Shima Iwashita Kin'ya Kitaōji Shintaro Katsu Similar Aoi Tokugawa Sandai, Takeda Shingen, Gō, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Heart of a Samurai

Dokuganryū Masamune (独眼竜政宗) is a 1987 Japanese television series. It is the 25th NHK taiga drama. The broadcast received an average viewer rating of 39.7 percent in the Kanto area.

Plot

Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan in 1590, but Date Masamune did not abandon his desire to control the nation.

Staff

Original : Sōhachi Yamaoka

Music : Shin’ichirō Ikebe

Historical research : Keizō Suzuki

Starring role

Ken Watanabe as Date Masamune, the one-eyed dragon

Date clan

Kin'ya Kitaōji as Date Terumune, Masamune's father

Shima Iwashita as Ohigashi no kata, Masamune's mother

Junko Sakurada as Megohime (adult), Masamune's wife

Kumiko Goto as Megohime (teenager)

Tomokazu Miura as Date Shigezane, Masamune's cousin

Teruhiko Saigō as Katakura Kojūrō, Masamune's most trusted vassal

Keiko Takeshita as Katakura Kita, Kojūrō's half-sister

Mikiko Otonashi as Tsuta, Kojūrō'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 Oniiwa Sagetsu

Shigeru Kōyama as Endō Motonobu

Kyōzō Nagatsuka as Rusu Masakage

Mitsuru Hirata as Suzuki Motonobu

Minori Terada as Ōuchi Sadatsuna

Machiko Washio as Ochako

Shirō Sano as Goto Nobuyasu

Issey Ogata as Kokubu Morishige

Hironobu Nomura as Date Tadamune, Masamune's second son

Raita Ryū as Date Sanemoto, Shigezane's father

Michiko Godai as Tose, Shigezane's wife

Mogami clan

Yoshio Harada as Mogami Yoshiaki

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 Yūki Hideyasu

Renji Ishibashi as Yagyū Munenori

Others

Hideji Ōtaki as Kosai Sōitsu

Akira Kubo as Tamura Kiyoaki, Megohime's father

Isao Yamagata as Mukaidate Takumi

Ryūnosuke Kaneda as Ōkubo Nagayasu

Ryō Ikebe as Sen no Rikyū

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

Ryūzaburō Ōtomo as Kubota Jūrō

Shin Aomori as Furukawa Danjō

References

Dokuganryū Masamune Wikipedia

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