Kōmyō ga Tsuji

2006 taiga drama about Chiyo and Yamauchi Kazutoyo

Yukie Nakama
Takaya Kamikawa
Tetsuya Takeda
Gin Maeda
Hiromi Nagasaku
Emi Wakui
Masami Nagasawa
Teruyuki Kagawa
Michitaka Tsutsui
Kyōko Hasegawa
Saburo Ishikura
Katsuhisa Namase
Junko Mihara
Atsushi Tamura
Hisahiro Ogura
Hiroki Narimiya
Hiroshi Tamaki
Akiko Matsumoto
Goro Noguchi
Yumi Takigawa
Mao Daichi
Bandō Mitsugorō
Nakamura Hashinosuke
Masaomi Kondō
Masahiko Tsugawa
Yūko Asano
Akira Emoto
Yoshiko Sakuma
Toshiyuki Nishida
Hiroshi Tachi

Narrated byTamio Miyake^[1]Theme music composerReijirō Koroku^[2]ComposerReijirō Koroku^[3]Country of originJapanOriginal languageJapaneseNo. of episodes49ProductionProducerAkimasa Oka (chief)^[4]Production locationJapanRunning time45 minutesOriginal releaseNetworkNHKReleaseJanuary 8 (2006-01-08) –
December 10, 2006 (2006-12-10)

Kōmyō ga Tsuji (功名が辻) is a 2006 Japanese historical television series, and the 45th NHK taiga drama. It is written by Shizuka Ōishi, based on the 1965 novel of the same name by Ryōtarō Shiba.^[5] The series chronicles the lives of Chiyo and Yamauchi Kazutoyo, a couple who lived during the Sengoku period of Japan.

Cast

Chiyo and Kazutoyo

Yukie Nakama as Chiyo, wife of Kazutoyo
- Anzu Nagai as young Chiyo
Takaya Kamikawa as Yamauchi Kazutoyo, samurai and later Lord of Tosa
- Shingo Michinaka as young Kazutoyo

Their family

Yoshiko Sakuma as Hōshūin
Hiroshi Tamaki as Yamauchi Yasutoyo
Masahiko Tsugawa as Fuwa Ichinojō
Yumi Takigawa as Kinu
Shin Takuma as Wakamiya Kisuke
Tae Kimura as Tomo
Ei Morisako as Yone
Haruma Miura as Shōnan

Goto and Sofue clan

Tetsuya Takeda as Goto Kichibei
Gin Maeda as Sofue Shinemon
Mami Kumagai as Fune
Manabu Hamada as Sofue Shin'ichirō
Shinnosuke Furumoto as Sofue Tokushinsai

Horio clan

Nakamura clan

Atsushi Tamura as Nakamura Kazuuji
Otoha as Toshi
Momoki Yamada as Yokota Naizen

Hosokawa clan

Azai clan

Takaaki Enoki as Azai Nagamasa
Kei Yamamoto as Azai Hisamasa
Ayato Kosugi as Manpukumaru
Maiko Kikkawa as Hatsu
- Rina Matsumoto as young Hatsu
Erika Niibo as Gō
- Nichika Hara as young Gō

Saitō clan

Kazuma Kudō as Saitō Tatsuoki
Tasuku Uno as Andō Morinari
Hideki Oshikiri as Hineno Hironari
Toshiya Tanaka as Ujiie Bokuzen
Takashi Kuramoto as Inaba Ittetsu

Mōri clan

Ashikaga shogunate

Kōki Mitani as Ashikaga Yoshiaki
Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi as Ashikaga Yoshiteru

Others

Production

The 45th taiga drama was announced to be Kōmyō ga Tsuji on July 16, 2004, with Yukie Nakama and Takaya Kamikawa starring in the lead roles of Chiyo and Yamauchi Kazutoyo respectively.^[6]

Toshiaki Karasawa made a cameo appearance as Maeda Toshiie, a protagonist of the 2002 taiga drama.

As the series was in the middle of its run with high ratings, chief producer Akimasa Oda remarked that the series' success is likely due to its lead couple's ordinariness and industrious attitude.^[4]

Home media

The first 27 episodes of Kōmyō ga Tsuji were released by NHK within one DVD box set on January 25, 2007.^[7] The remaining 22 episodes were released in a separate box set on March 21, 2007.^[8]

Soundtrack

NHK Taiga Drama "Kōmyō ga Tsuji" Original Soundtrack (Release date: May 10, 2006)^[2]

References

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^ ^a ^b Andō, Akiko (13 September 2006). "大河ドラマ　ＮＨＫ「功名が辻」　視聴率合戦、いざ勝負". ENAK. The Sankei Shimbun. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
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