Tokugawa FÅ«unroku Hachidai ShÅgun Yoshimune
Tokugawa FÅ«unroku Hachidai ShÅgun Yoshimune (å¾³å·é¢¨é›²éŒ² 八代将è»å‰å®—) is a television program broadcast on January 2, 2008 on the TV Tokyo network in Japan. It was the 28th in the annual Shinshun Wide Jidaigeki series. Ten hours long, it began at 2:00 p.m. and ran until midnight.
The production stars Masatoshi Nakamura as Tokugawa Yoshimune, eighth Tokugawa shogun. Asahi Uchida portrays Ten'ichi-bÅ, a youth portrayed as a son of the young Yoshimune. Ken Ishiguro is ÅŒoka Tadasuke.
Yoshimune's mother, Oyuri, is Rino Katase. Sakurai Sachiko, Misato Tanaka, Yoko Minamino, Miki Sakai, Tomoka Kurotani (as Ejima), Yumiko Takahashi, Waka Inoue, Sachiko Kokubu, and Mari Hoshino appear.
Veteran actor Hiroki Matsukata plays Tokugawa Mitsusada, Yoshimune's father. Mito Mitsukuni, who supported Yoshimune's bid to become shogun, is portrayed by Makoto Fujita. Teruhiko SaigÅ portrays ÅŒishi Kuranosuke, leader of the Forty-seven Ronin, and Toshiyuki Nishida (whose major roles include Yoshimune in the NHK Taiga drama based on his life) takes the role of Kinokuniya Bunzaemon. Another veteran Yoshimune, Ken Matsudaira (for 25 years the star of AbarenbÅ ShÅgun), appears as Tsuchiya Mondonosuke.
The program is based on the two-volume historical novel Yoshimune to Ten'ichi-bÅ by RenzaburÅ Shibata, the author who wrote the Sleepy Eyes of Death (Nemuri KyÅshirÅ) series and Gokenin ZankurÅ. Shunka Nagasaka (Kamen Rider X, Japan Sinks, Ultraman Zearth) wrote the script. Ichikura Haruo and KÅjirÅ Fujioka are the directors. The show is a joint production of TV Tokyo and Toei.
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Further reading
- 天一åŠæ”¹è¡Œ (Ten'ichi-bÅ KaigyÅ) in the Japanese Wikipedia
- 天一åŠäº‹ä»¶ (Ten'ichi-bÅ jiken) in the Japanese Wikipedia