Aoi Tokugawa Sandai

Aoi Tokugawa Sandai
Written by	James Miki
Directed by	Akihiko Shigemitsu Mitsunobu Ozaki Yuzuru Satō Kazuki Watanabe
Starring	Masahiko Tsugawa Shima Iwashita Onoe Tatsunosuke II Onoe Kikunosuke V Joe Shishido Shigeru Kōyama Kyōko Mitsubayashi Kuriko Namino Kei Suma Ryō Tamura Miki Sakai Nanako Ōkōchi Teruhiko Saigō Ryunosuke Kaneda Nakamura Baijaku II Keizō Kanie Isao Natsuyagi Nenji Kobayashi Ryūzō Hayashi Ken Utsui Kirin Kiki Mayumi Ogawa Mitsuko Kusabue Isuzu Yamada Tōru Emori Toshiyuki Nishida
Narrated by	Nakamura Baijaku II
Theme music composer	Charles Dutoit
Opening theme	NHK Symphony Orchestra
Composer(s)	Taro Iwashiro
Country of origin	Japan
Original language(s)	Japanese
No. of episodes	49
Production
Executive producer(s)	Atsushi Kawai
Running time	45 minutes
Release
Original network	NHK
Original release	January 9, 2000 – December 17, 2000

Aoi Tokugawa Sandai (葵 徳川三代) is a 2000 Japanese television series that premiered on January 9, 2000, and ended on December 17, 2000. It is the 39th NHK taiga drama.

Plot

The story begins with the death of Hideyoshi.

Cast

Shogun

• Masahiko Tsugawa as Tokugawa Ieyasu - the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate
• Toshiyuki Nishida as Tokugawa Hidetada - the second shogun
• Onoe Tatsunosuke II as Tokugawa Iemitsu - the third shogun
  • Takayuki Yamada as young Iemitsu

Tokugawa clan

• Shima Iwashita as Ogō - wife of Hidetada
• Isuzu Yamada as Odai no kata - mother of Ieyasu
• Kyōko Mitsubayashi as Acha no Tsubone
• Minako Osanai as Oman no Kata
• Michiko Godai as Lady Chaa
• Kirin Kiki as Lady Kasuga
• Miki Sakai as Tokugawa Masako
• Yoko Moriguchi as Okaji no Kata
• Nanako Ōkōchi as Senhime
  • Marika Matsumoto as Young Senhime
• Fujita Okamoto as Yūki Hideyasu
• Hiroyuki Sakamoto as Matsudaira Tadateru
• Hayato Ōshiba as Tokugawa Yorifusa
• Manabu Hamada as Hoshina Masayuki
• Asumi Nakada as Haruhime
• Yukie Nakama as Oraku

Fudai daimyo

• Shigeru Kōyama as Honda Masanobu
• Ikkei Watanabe as Honda Masazumi - the eldest son of Masanobu
• Joe Shishido as Honda Tadakatsu - one of the Shitennō
• Hiroshi Katsuno as Ii Naomasa - one of the Shitennō
• Kōji Shimizu as Sakakibara Yasumasa - one of the Shitennō
• Taro Ishida as Ōkubo Tadachika
• Takashi Sasano as Torii Mototada
• Ryūzō Hayashi as Doi Toshikatsu
• Mizuho Suzuki as Itakura Katsushige
• Masaki Terasoma as Itakura Shigemasa
• Hiroshi Iwasaki as Sakai Tadayo
• Katsumi Chō as Naitō Kiyonari
• Saburo Ishikura as Aoyama Tadatoshi

Toyotomi

• Onoe Kikunosuke V as Toyotomi Hideyori
• Mayumi Ogawa as Yodo-dono - the second wife of Hideyoshi
  • Mei Kurokawa as Cha-cha (Young Yodo)
• Mitsuko Kusabue as Kōdai-in - the first wife of Hideyoshi
• Mayuko Fukuda as Yuihime - the daughter of Hideyori
• Nenji Kobayashi as Katagiri Katsumoto
• Naoki Hosaka as Ōno Harunaga
• Teruhiko Saigō as Sanada Yukimura
• Takayuki Sugō as Konishi Yukinaga
• Yoshisada Sakaguchi as Nakamura Kazu'uji

Council of Five Elders

• Kazuo Kitamura as Maeda Toshiie
• Ken Utsui as Mōri Terumoto
• Teruyuki Kagawa as Ukita Hideie
• Tsunehiko Kamijō as Uesugi Kagekatsu

Go-Bugyō

• Tōru Emori as Ishida Mitsunari
• Shinichiro Mikami as Asano Nagamasa
• Kei Satō as Mashita Nagamori
• Toshio Kurosawa as Natsuka Masaie
• Hiroshi Kamiyama as Maeda Gen'i

Ishida family

• Masane Tsukayama as Ishida Masazumi
• Taketoshi Naito as Ishida Masatsugu
• Keiko Takahashi as Orin - wife of Mitsunari
• Isao Natsuyagi as Shima Sakon

Eastern Army

• Ryō Tamura as Tōdō Takatora
• Shinji Yamashita as Kuroda Nagamasa
• Shunsuke Kariya as Katō Kiyomasa
• Keizō Kanie as Fukushima Masanori
• Satoru Saitō as Yamauchi Kazutoyo
• Kei Suma as Date Masamune
• Tsutomu Isobe as Ikeda Terumasa
• Hideaki Tezuka as Tsuda Shigemoto
• Hiroyuki Watanabe as Asano Yoshinaga
• Shirō Saitō as Tanaka Yoshimasa

Western Army

• Toshiyuki Hosokawa as Ōtani Yoshitsugu
• Akaji Maro as Shimazu Yoshihiro
• Kazuma Suzuki as Kobayakawa Hideaki
• Ichirō Zaitsu as Ankokuji Ekei
• Shinya Ōwada as Tachibana Muneshige

Kyōgoku

• Akira Onodera as Kyōgoku Takatsugu
• Kuriko Namino as Jōkō-in

Hosokawa

• Isao Sasaki as Hosokawa Tadaoki
• Kyōka Suzuki as Hosokawa Gracia
• Shun Oguri as Hosokawa Tadatoshi

Imperial House

• Hiroyuki Kinoshita as Emperor Go-Yōzei
• Minori Terada as Nijō Akizane
• Junpei Morita as Sanjōnishi Sane'eda
• Noriko Ogawa as Sadako
• Norihiro Inoue as Kajūji Mitsutoyo
• Kazutoyo Yoshimi as Karasumaru Mitsuhiro

Others

• Nakamura Baijaku II as Tokugawa Mitsukuni, aka Mito Kōmon
• Kazuyo Asari as Sassa Sukesaburō, aka Suke-san
• Machiko Washio as Asaka Tanpaku, aka Kaku-san
• Terence O'Brien as William Adams, aka Miura Anjin
• Noriko Shōji as a reporter

Staff

• Music : Taro Iwashiro
• Historical research : Shinzaburō Ōishi
• Architectural research : Kiyoshi Hirai
• Clothing research : Kiyoko Koizumi
• Narrator : Nakamura Baijaku II

External links

• NHK website
• Aoi Tokugawa Sandai at the Internet Movie Database