Dokuganryū Masamune

Dokuganryū Masamune
Genre	Historical, Jidaigeki
Written by	James Miki
Directed by	Katsuji Nakamura
Starring	Ken Watanabe Tomokazu Miura Teruhiko Saigō Junko Sakurada Yasuko Sawaguchi Hiroyuki Sanada Kanako Higuchi Eiji Okuda Hironobu Nomura Chosuke Ikariya Takanori Jinnai Hiroshi Katsuno Yoichi Hayashi Shigeru Kōyama Mikiko Otonashi Renji Ishibashi Raita Ryū Kei Tani Ryūnosuke Kaneda Ryō Ikebe Isao Yamagata Kumiko Akiyoshi Hideji Ōtaki Yoshio Harada Kaoru Yachigusa Masahiko Tsugawa Shima Iwashita Kin'ya Kitaōji Shintaro Katsu
Narrated by	Seiji Kasai
Opening theme	NHK Symphony Orchestra
Composer(s)	Shin’ichirō Ikebe
Country of origin	Japan
Original language(s)	Japanese
No. of episodes	50
Production
Running time	45 minutes
Release
Original network	NHK
Original release	January 1987 – December 1987
Chronology
Preceded by	Inochi
Followed by	Takeda Shingen

Dokuganryū Masamune (独眼竜政宗) is a 1987 Japanese television series. It is the 25th NHK taiga drama. The broadcast received an average viewer rating of 39.7 percent in the Kanto area.^[1]

Plot

Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan in 1590, but Date Masamune did not abandon his desire to control the nation.

Staff

• Original : Sōhachi Yamaoka
• Music : Shin’ichirō Ikebe
• Historical research : Keizō Suzuki

Cast

Starring role

• Ken Watanabe as Date Masamune, the one-eyed dragon

Date clan

• Kin'ya Kitaōji as Date Terumune, Masamune's father
• Shima Iwashita as Ohigashi no kata, Masamune's mother
• Junko Sakurada as Megohime (adult), Masamune's wife
• Kumiko Goto as Megohime (teenager)
• Tomokazu Miura as Date Shigezane, Masamune's cousin
• Teruhiko Saigō as Katakura Kojūrō, Masamune's most trusted vassal
• Keiko Takeshita as Katakura Kita, Kojūrō's half-sister
• Mikiko Otonashi as Tsuta, Kojūrō's wife
• Kenichi Okamoto as Date Kojirō, Masamune's younger brother
• Kumiko Akiyoshi as Iizaka no Tsubone, also known as Neko Gozen
• Yasuko Sawaguchi as Iroha, Masamune's first daughter
• Chosuke Ikariya as Oniiwa Sagetsu
• Shigeru Kōyama as Endō Motonobu
• Kyōzō Nagatsuka as Rusu Masakage
• Mitsuru Hirata as Suzuki Motonobu
• Minori Terada as Ōuchi Sadatsuna
• Machiko Washio as Ochako
• Shirō Sano as Goto Nobuyasu
• Issey Ogata as Kokubu Morishige
• Hironobu Nomura as Date Tadamune, Masamune's second son
• Raita Ryū as Date Sanemoto, Shigezane's father
• Michiko Godai as Tose, Shigezane's wife

Mogami clan

• Yoshio Harada as Mogami Yoshiaki
• Kaori Sakagami as Komahime, Yoshiaki's second daughter

Toyotomi clan

• Shintaro Katsu as Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the ruler of Japan
• Kaoru Yachigusa as Nene
• Kanako Higuchi as Yodo-dono, Hideyori's mother
• Eiji Okuda as Ishida Mitsunari
• Kisuke Yamashita as Toyotomi Hideyori, Hideyoshi's son
• Maiko Itō as Senhime
• Yoichi Hayashi as Asano Nagamasa
• Takanori Jinnai as Toyotomi Hidetsugu
• Yumiko Nogawa as Asahi no kata
• Takaaki Enoki as Ōno Harunaga
• Minoru Ōki as Maeda Toshiie
• Ken Teraizumi as Gamō Ujisato
• Gō Wakabayashi as Sanada Yukimura
• Tatsuo Matsumura as Katagiri Katsumoto
• Nobuyuki Katsube as Gotō Matabei
• Makoto Yuasa as Maeda Gen'i

Tokugawa clan

• Masahiko Tsugawa as Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate
• Hiroyuki Sanada as Matsudaira Tadateru, Iroha's husband
• Hiroshi Katsuno as Tokugawa Hidetada
• Shin Takuma as Tokugawa Iemitsu
• Junichi Nitta as Yūki Hideyasu
• Renji Ishibashi as Yagyū Munenori

Others

• Hideji Ōtaki as Kosai Sōitsu
• Akira Kubo as Tamura Kiyoaki, Megohime's father
• Isao Yamagata as Mukaidate Takumi
• Ryūnosuke Kaneda as Ōkubo Nagayasu
• Ryō Ikebe as Sen no Rikyū
• Kei Tani as Imai Sōkun
• José Cardini as Luis Sotelo
• Joe Grace as Sebastián Vizcaíno
• Gentarō Ishida as Hatakeyama Yoshitsugu
• Hiroshi Arikawa as Shinjō Danjō
• Shinichi Tsutsumi as Ashina Yoshihiro
• Ryūzaburō Ōtomo as Kubota Jūrō
• Shin Aomori as Furukawa Danjō

See also

• Sengoku period

References

1. "過去の視聴率データ NHK大河ドラマ". Video Research Ltd.

External links

• Official website (Japanese)
• Dokuganryū Masamune at the Internet Movie Database
• Masamune had an audience with Hideyoshi (YouTube)