Fūrin Kazan (Taiga drama)

For other uses, see Fūrinkazan (disambiguation).
Fūrin Kazan
Written by Sumio Ōmori
Directed by Kazuhiko Shimizu
Starring Masaaki Uchino
Ichikawa Kamejirō II
Gackt
Chizuru Ikewaki
Yuki Shibamoto
Akio Kaneda
Seiichi Tanabe
Kazuya Takahashi
Kai Shishido
Shōsuke Tanihara
Ryūta Satō
Shihori Kanjiya
Asami Mizukawa
Misa Shimizu
Naomi Nishida
Makoto Matsui
Miyoko Asada
Tokuma Nishioka
Kuranosuke Sasaki
Fumiyo Kohinata
Toshiyuki Nagashima
Masatō Ibu
Ichikawa Sadanji IV
Takeshi Katō
Raita Ryū
Jun Fubuki
Shiho Fujimura
Ken Ogata
Sonny Chiba
Tatsuya Nakadai
Theme music composer Akira Senju
Opening theme Ken Takaseki and NHK Symphony Orchestra
Composer(s) Akira Senju
Country of origin Japan
Original language(s) Japanese
No. of episodes 50
Production
Executive producer(s) Hisaaki Wakaizumi
Running time approx. 43 min.
Release
Original network NHK
Picture format NTSC 14:9 (SDTV)
1080i (HDTV)
Original release January 7 – December 16, 2007

Fūrin Kazan (風林火山) was the 46th NHK Taiga drama beginning on January 7, 2007. It was aired throughout 2007.

The story, to a large extent, was an adaptation of Yasushi Inoue's 1959 historical novel of the same title (published in English under the title The Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan[1]). The four characters of the title, from left to right are wind, woods, fire, and mountain. The title is a reference to the war banner used by Takeda Shingen, which in turn was taken from Sun Tzu's The Art of War. It means "Swift as the Wind, Silent as a Forest, Fierce as Fire and Immovable as a Mountain."

Story

Like many of the previous Taiga dramas, Fūrin Kazan deals with the Sengoku period. Based on Yasushi Inoue's novel by the same title, it depicts the life of Yamamoto Kansuke who is known as one of Takeda Shingen's renowned strategists.

Staff

Starring

Yamamoto family

Kuzukasa village

Takeda family

Takeda Army

Uesugi

Imagawa

Hōjō

Other Shinano Daimyō

Others

Soundtrack and books

Soundtrack

Books

Official guide
Novel

Notes

  1. Inoue, Yasushi. The Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan. Translated by Yoko Riley. Vermont: Tuttle Publishing, 2005. <http://www.tuttlepublishing.com/authors/inoue-yasushi/the-samurai-banner-of-furin-kazan>, accessed 10 January 2014.

External links

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