Katsu Kaishū (TV series)
Appearance
Katsu Kaishū | |
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Genre | Taiga drama |
Written by | Sō Kuramoto, Shouji Nakazawa |
Directed by | Sanzo Nakayama, Asao Yamanaka |
Starring | Tetsuya Watari Hiroki Matsukata Kenichi Hagiwara Joe Shishido Tatsuya Fuji Tsunehiko Watase Masahiko Tsugawa Hiroshi Fujioka Reiko Ohara Mitsuko Oka Akiko Nishina Katsumasa Uchida Keiju Kobayashi Onoe Shoroku II |
Theme music composer | Isao Tomita |
Opening theme | NHK Symphony Orchestra |
Country of origin | Japan |
Original language | Japanese |
No. of episodes | 52 |
Production | |
Running time | 45 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | NHK |
Release | January 6 – December 29, 1974 |
Katsu Kaishū (勝海舟) is a 1974 Japanese television series. It is the 12th NHK taiga drama.[1] Tetsuya Watari was forced to step down from the role of Katsu Kaishū because of his illness so he appeared only first 9 episodes.[2][3]
Story
Katsu Kaishū deals with end of the Edo period. Based on Kan Shimozawa's novels "Katsu Kaishū ".[4][5]
The story chronicles the life of Katsu Kaishū .[3][1]
Cast
- Tetsuya Watari (ep.1-9) / Hiroki Matsukata (ep.10-) as Katsu Kaishū
- Onoe Shoroku II
- Reiko Ohara
- Yoshiko Kuga
- MItsuko Oka
- Akiko Nishina
- Naoko Otani
- Rokkō Toura as Takano Chōei
- Hiroshi Fujioka as Sakamoto Ryoma
- Renji Ishibashi
- Joe Shishido as Yamaoka Tesshū
- Masahiko Tsugawa as Tokugawa Yoshinobu
- Katsumasa Uchida
- Asao Sano as Tetsugoro
- Takeo Chii
- Tatsuya Fuji as Hijikata Toshizō
- Tsunehiko Watase as Tanaka Shinbei
- Kenichi Hagiwara as Okada Izo
- Keiju Kobayashi