Taiheiki (TV series)
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GenreHistorical, jidaigeki
Based onShihon Taiheiki (私本太平記) by Eiji Yoshikawa
Written byShunsaku Ikehata
Shigeo Nakakura
Shigeo Nakakura
Directed byMikio Satō and others
| Taiheiki | |
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| Genre | Historical, jidaigeki |
| Based on | Shihon Taiheiki (私本太平記) by Eiji Yoshikawa |
| Written by | Shunsaku Ikehata Shigeo Nakakura |
| Directed by | Mikio Satō and others |
| Starring |
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| Narrated by | Motoyo Yamane |
| Theme music composer | Shigeaki Saegusa |
| Composer | Shigeaki Saegusa |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language | Japanese |
| No. of episodes | 49 |
| Production | |
| Producers | Yasuo Takahashi Kunihisa Ichiyanagi |
| Production location | Japan |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | NHK |
| Release | January 6 – December 8, 1991 |
Taiheiki (太平記) is a 1991 Japanese historical television series and the 29th NHK taiga drama. It is based on the 1958 novel Shihon Taiheiki by Eiji Yoshikawa.[1][2] It had an average viewership rating of 26.0%, peaking at 34.6%.
The drama is set at the end of the Kamakura period, going into the Nanboku-chō period during the early Muromachi period. Ashikaga Takauji, a rising warlord in the north of Japan, forms an alliance with Emperor Go-Daigo to overthrow the corrupt and decrepit Kamakura shogunate. The emperor, seeking to restore Imperial rule, begins the Kenmu Restoration, but fails to please the samurai and cannot dispel their fears of being displaced as the privileged class of Japanese society. Seizing the opportunity, Takauji decides to turn against the Emperor and establish a new shogunate.
Cast
Ashikaga clan
- Hiroyuki Sanada as Ashikaga Takauji
- Yasuko Sawaguchi as Akahashi Tōko (Tōshi), Takauji's wife
- Ken Ogata as Ashikaga Sadauji, Takauji's father
- Shiho Fujimura as Uesugi Kiyoko, Takauji's mother
- Masanobu Takashima as Ashikaga Tadayoshi, Takauji's younger brother
- Kataoka Takatarō as Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Takauji's heir
- Yūsuke Morita as Senjuō (young Yoshiakira)
- Michitaka Tsutsui as Ashikaga Tadafuyu, Takauji's illegitimate son
- Yūichirō Yamazaki as Izayamaru (young Tadafuyu)
- Yasuo Daichi as Isshiki Umanosuke
- Akira Emoto as Kō no Moronao
- Kazunaga Tsuji as Kō no Moroshige
- Sansei Shiomi as Kō no Moroyasu
- Toru Abe as Kō no Morouji
- Kohji Moritsugu as Hosokawa Akiuji
- Akira Yamanouchi as Kira Sadayoshi
- Don Kantarō as Imagawa Norikuni
Hōjō clan (Kamakura shogunate)
- Tsurutaro Kataoka as Hōjō Takatoki, the 14th shikken
- Kiyoshi Kodama as Kanesawa (Hōjō) Sadaaki, the 15th shikken
- Hiroshi Katsuno as Akahashi (Hōjō) Moritoki, the last shikken and Takauji's brother-in-law.
- Frankie Sakai as Nagasaki Enki
- Tokuma Nishioka as Nagasaki Takasuke
- Tamaki Sawa as Kakukai-ni
- Akane Oda as Akiko
- Junkichi Orimoto as Shioya Muneharu
- Chikao Ohtsuka as Doisado no Zenshi
- Kunio Kaga as Adachi Moriyasu
The Imperial Court
- Kataoka Takao as Emperor Go-Daigo
- Daijirō Tsusumi as Prince Moriyoshi
- Mieko Harada as Ano Renshi
- Terutake Tsuji as Emperor Kōgon
Kugyō/Kuge
- Masaomi Kondō as Kitabatake Chikafusa
- Kumiko Goto as Kitabatake Akiie
- Takaaki Enoki as Hino Toshimoto
- Masahiro Motoki as Chigusa Tadaaki
- Hōsei Komatsu as Nawa Nagatoshi
- Hatsunori Hasegawa as Saionji Kinmune
- Takashi Fujiki as Bōmon Kiyotada
- Norihiro Inoue as Shijō Takasuke
- Mitsuru Miyamoto as Nijō Michihira
- Akaji Maro as Monkan
- Baku Ōwada as Madenokōji Fujifusa
Nitta clan
- Kenichi Hagiwara (episodes 1-7)[3] → Jinpachi Nezu as Nitta Yoshisada
- Masumi Miyazaki as Kōtō no Naishi
- Yoshizumi Ishihara as Wakiya Yoshisuke
Kawachi Province
- Tetsuya Takeda as Kusunoki Masashige
- Mariko Fuji as Hisako
- Hidekazu Akai as Kusunoki Masasue
- Shigeyuki Nakamura as Kusunoki Masatsura
- Seidai Katō as young Masatsura
Hanayasha Theatre Group
- Kanako Higuchi as Hanayasha/Utsugi, Kusunoki Masashige's younger sister
- Toshirō Yanagiba as Ishi
- Ryō Takayama as young Ishi
- Rie Miyazawa as Fujiyasha, Izayamaru's mother
- Chikako Oba as young Fujiyasha
- Hideki Nishioka as Kanze Kiyotsugu
Others
- Takanori Jinnai as Sasaki Dōyō
- Tetsu Watanabe as Akamatsu Enshin
- Etsushi Takahashi as Momonoi Tadatsune
- Etsushi Toyokawa
- Takako Tokiwa
- Strong Kobayashi as Big Man
Production credit
- Sword fight arranger - Kunishirō Hayashi