NHK 36 – Mori Motonari – 毛利元就 – 1997 – USB Free Shipping Worldwide

Mori Motonari

Details

• Title: 毛利元就
• Title (romaji): Mori Motonari
• Genre: Jidaigeki
• Episodes: 49 (see notes)
• Viewership ratings: Ep1=25.3, High=28.5, Avg=23.4
• Broadcast network: NHK
• Broadcast period: 1997-Jan-05 to 1997-Dec-14
• Air time: Sunday 20:00

Synopsis

The 36th NHK Taiga Drama is Mori Motonari. This series chronicles the life of Mori Motonari, a warlord of the early 1500s who stood at the vanguard of the Warring States era. All Japanese school textbooks contain the Mitsuya no kyokun, Mori’s famous lesson to his three sons that teaches that while one arrow is easily broken, three arrows together cannot be broken. In 1997, 500 years after his birth, NHK dramatizes Motonari’s rise from a chief of the region of Aki (now Hiroshima) to a daimyo who rules over ten provinces of the Chugoku region. Motonari was 64 years old and already the patriarch of a powerful dynasty about the time Oda Nobunaga and Takeda Shingen appeared on the scene. And even after his death, the Mori family figured prominently in Japanese history. His grandson Terumoto became a loyal Toyotomi vassal. Defeated at the Battle of Sekigahara, Ieyasu confiscated most of his lands, leaving him only with Suwo and Nagato, later known as Choshu. But 260 years later, the Mori got their ultimate revenge, leading the imperial forces against the Tokugawa in the Meiji Restoration. –KIKU TV

• Mori Motonari/Synopsis ep1-30
• Mori Motonari/Synopsis Eps 31-49

Cast

• Nakamura Hashinosuke
• Kamikawa Takaya
• Tomita Yasuko
• Matsuzaka Keiko
• Kataoka Tsurutaro
• Matoba Koji
• Enoki Takaaki
• Jinnai Takanori
• Morita Go
• Azuma Chizuru
• Nakamura Baijaku
• Hosokawa Toshiyuki
• Kaga Mariko
• Kusakari Masao
• Takeshita Keiko
• Takashima Masahiro
• Ogata Ken
• Miyamoto Nobuko
• Numata Baku
• Shirai Akira
• Musaka Naomasa
• Natsuyagi Isao
• Hotaru Yukijiro
• Matsubara Chiaki
• Ikeda Yukiko (ep43-49)
• Matsukane Yoneko
• Taguchi Tomorowo

Production Credits

• Original writing: Nagai Michiko (永井路子)
• Screenwriter: Uchidate Makiko
• Music: Watanabe Toshiyuki

Notes

• This renzoku contains 49 episodes. In the United States (specifically KIKU-TV and other licensees of the JN Production subbed work), episode 1 was split into two episodes (1A and 1B), while making episode 2 episode 3, and so on down the line, the ending result appearing to have 50 episodes instead of 49.

External Links

• Japanese Wikipedia
• JDorama.com
• KIKU-TV