Kabukimono Keiji
Kabukimono Keiji | |
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Also known as | かぶき者慶次 |
Genre | Jidaigeki |
Starring | Tatsuya Fuji Shôhei Hino Kyoko Enami Noriko Aoyama Mariya Nishiuchi Masatō Ibu |
Theme music composer | Toshiyuki Watanabe |
Country of origin | Japan |
Original language | Japanese |
No. of episodes | 11 |
Production | |
Running time | 45 minutes (per episode) |
Production company | NHK |
Original release | |
Network | NHK |
Release | April 2015 – June, 2015 |
Kabukimono Keiji (かぶき者慶次) is a Japanese television jidaigeki or period drama that was broadcast in prime-time on NHK in 2015. Tatsuya Fuji played Maeda Keiji. Kabukimono Keiji depicts the later life of Maeda Keiji.[1]
Plot
Maeda Keiji used to be a famous samurai but now he is spending half retired life at Mukuan(Keiji's fortified resistance) in Yonezawa.
Maeda Keiji secretly raised a child of Ishida Mitsunari as a child of himself but that was known to the Tokugawa shogunate. Tentoku was sent by Tokugawa shogunate as a spy to demolish Yonezawa han. Maeda Keiji tries to protect his child (Child of Ishida Mitsunari) and Yonezawa han from Tokugawa shogunate. When his wife is shot and injured by assassins of Tokugawa shogunate, Keiji decides to go to Sunpu castle to meet Tokugawa Ieyasu.[2][3]
Cast
- Tatsuya Fuji : Maeda Keiji
- Shōhei Hino : Matakichi
- Mariya Nishiuchi : Sano Maeda (Keiji's daughter)
- Aoi Nakamura ; Shinquro Maeda (Mitsunari Ishida's child)
- Kyoko Enami : Mitsu Maeda (Keiji's wife)
- Noriko Aoyama : Hana Maeda
- Tomoko Tabata :Take
- Bibari Maeda : Izumino tsubone
- Mitsu Dan : Shizuku
- Yuko Fueki : Yukiya
- Masatō Ibu : Tentoku Oshō (A spy from Tokugawa shogunate)
References
- ^ "かぶき者慶次 戦国一の武辺者!人気の派手男・前田慶次の晩年は、のんきなお父さん? その胸に秘めた「男の約束」を藤竜也が硬軟自在に演じる。". 時代劇専門チャンネル. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
- ^ "かぶき者慶次". NHK. Retrieved June 3, 2017.
- ^ "かぶき者慶次 2". NHK. Retrieved June 3, 2017.