Tokugawa Ieyasu

Plot

The work is set during the Sengoku period going into the early Edo period.

The story chronicles the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu from before his birth until his death.

Production

Production Credits

Original – Sōhachi Yamaoka

Music – Isao Tomita

Narrator – Naomitsu Tateno

Historical research – Keizō Suzuki

Sword fight arranger - Kunishirō Hayashi

Casting

Ieyasu

Generally, due to the image of Tokugawa Ieyasu being petite and chubby, casting proved to be challenging. Before long, within the production team, the desire to create a new image of Ieyasu grew stronger, and the tall Sakae Takita was chosen for the role.

Hideyoshi

Due to the strong desire of Mieko Osanai, who is also a scriptwriter for Kinpachi-sensei, Tetsuya Takeda played the role of Hideyoshi. He was mentioned as one of the leading candidates for the role of Hideyoshi in the 1981 NHK Taiga drama Onna Taikōki as well.

Nobunaga

Initially, the role of Nobunaga was offered to popular singer and actor Kenji Sawada. However, he was too busy, and scheduling proved to be difficult. Eventually, just one week before the casting announcement, it was decided that he was unable to participate. NHK gave up on casting a big-name actor and instead, at the time still relatively unknown, chose Koji Yakusho for the role. From there, he quickly rose to fame and became a popular actor.

Cast

Starring role

Sakae Takita as Tokugawa Ieyasu (episodes 7-50)

Yoshitaka Kase as child Ieyasu (episodes 3-5)

Yōji Matsuda as teen Ieyasu (episode 6)

Tokugawa clan

Shinobu Otake as Odai no Kata - Ieyasu's mother

Masaomi Kondō as Matsudaira Hirotada - Ieyasu's father

Kaoru Yachigusa as Keyōin - Ieyasu's grandmother

Kimiko Ikegami as Lady Tsukiyama - Ieyasu's wife

Hiroshi Katsuno as Tokugawa Hidetada - Ieyasu's third son

Hiroyuki Nagato as Honda Sakuzaemon

Shinjirō Ehara as Ishikawa Kazumasa

Taketoshi Naito as Honda Masanobu

Yosuke Natsuki as Yagyū Munenori

Hirotarō Honda as Honda Masazumi

Sen Yamamoto as Itakura Katsushige

Seiji Miyaguchi as Torii Tadayoshi

Sei Hiraizumi as Ii Naomasa

Kōsuke Toyohara as Ii Naomasa (young)

Katsumasa Uchida as Sakakibara Yasumasa

Masuyo Iwamoto as Asahi-hime - Ieyasu's second wife

Keiko Takeshita as Lady Saigō - Ieyasu's concubine

Ken Tanaka as Matsudaira Tadateru - Ieyasu's sixth son

Masahiko Tsugawa as Ōkubo Nagayasu

Junkichi Orimoto as Ōkubo Tadayo

Oda clan

Kōji Yakusho as Oda Nobunaga

Takao Itō as Oda Nobuhide

Mariko Fuji as Nōhime

Minori Terada as Akechi Mitsuhide

Rokko Toura as Hirate Masahide

Toyotomi clan

Tetsuya Takeda as Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Kazuko Yoshiyuki as Nene - Hideyoshi's wife

Mitsue Suzuki as Ōmandokoro - Hideyoshi's mother

Masako Natsume as Yodo-dono - Hideyoshi's concubine

Gō Rijū as Toyotomi Hideyori - Hideyoshi's son

Mariko Ishihara as Senhime - Hideyori's wife

Takeshi Kaga as Ishida Mitsunari

Yūsuke Kawazu as Shima Sakon

Akira Kume as Katagiri Katsumoto

Yasunori Irikawa as Kuroda Kanbei

Junpei Morita as Asano Yoshinaga

Council of Five Elders

Tetsurō Sagawa as Maeda Toshiie

Shinsuke Mikimoto as Mōri Terumoto

Tōru Yokoi as Uesugi Kagekatsu

Mitsuo Hamada as Ukita Hideie

Imagawa clan

Mikio Narita as Imagawa Yoshimoto

Yoichi Hayashi as Imagawa Ujizane

Keiju Kobayashi as Sessai Choro, Ieyasu's master

Takeda clan

Kei Satō as Takeda Shingen

Shinji Tōdō as Takeda Katsuyori

Shōbun Inoue as Yamagata Masakage

Takeo Namai as Anayama Nobukimi

Others

Gō Wakabayashi as Sanada Yukimura

Goro Ibuki as Katō Kiyomasa

Katsuhiko Watabiki as Fukushima Masanori

Hiroshi Arikawa as Ōtani Yoshitsugu

Jun Tazaki as Shimazu Yoshihiro

Onoe Tatsunosuke I as Date Masamune

Kōji Ishizaka as Naya Shōan (fictional character)

Misako Konno as Kinomi (fictional character)

Gorō Mutsumi as Naoe Kanetsugu

Masami Horiuchi as Kobayakawa Hideaki

Yūsuke Takita as Ankokuji Ekei

Raita Ryū as Tenkai

Jin Nakayama as Chaya Shirōjirō Kiyonobu

Daisaku Shinohara as Ashikaga Yoshiaki, the final shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate