is a 1988 Japanese historical television series. It is the 26th NHK Taiga drama. It is based on the novels by Jirō Nitta of the same title. It had the average viewing rating of 39.7%, with its peak reaching 47.8%. It had the second highest average viewership rating in its history with only a 0.5% difference to the previous year's Taiga drama One-Eyed Dragon Masamune.
Plot The series focuses on the life of Takeda Shingen during the Sengoku period. The narrator is Takeda Shingen's mother, Ōi-no-kata, who tells the story to the audience. Even when she dies mid-way through the main story, it is her spirit who continues to narrate the events and watch over her son until the very end. It covers from when Shingen exiled his father to his funeral three years after his death.
Production Sword fight arranger - Kunishirō Hayashi
Cast Takeda clan Kiichi Nakai as Takeda Shingen Claude Maki as young Shingen and Takeda Katsuyori Mikijirō Hira as Takeda Nobutora, Shingen's father Ayako Wakao as Lady Ōi, Shingen's mother (series narrator) Misako Konno as Lady Sanjō, Shingen's wife Mayumi Ogawa as Yae Yoko Minamino as Okoko and Koihime Mao Daichi as Satomi Kimiko Ikegami as Eri Takeshi Wakamatsu as Takeda Nobushige Masaru Shinozuka as Takeda Nobukado Shinichi Tsutsumi as Takeda Yoshinobu Nakamura Shichinosuke II as young Yoshinobu Katsuya Kobayashi as Hara Masatoshi Kei Satō as Abe Katsuyoshi Taketoshi Naito as Gishū "Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen" Joe Shishido as Hara Toratane Kiyoshi Kodama as Obu Toramasa Ryōsuke Miki as Baba Nobuharu Kōjirō Hongō as Amari Torayasu Bunta Sugawara as Itagaki Nobukata Hiroaki Murakami as Kōsaka "Danjō" Masanobu Isao Hashizume as Sanada Yukitaka Saburō Shinoda as Yamagata Masakage Toshiyuki Nishida as Yamamoto Kansuke
Uesugi clan Kyōhei Shibata as Uesugi Kenshin, Shingen's rival Ken Utsui as Naoe Kagetsuna Yūsuke Takita as Uesugi Norimasa Tokuma Nishioka as Kitajō Takahiro Hiroshi Katsuno as Ōkuma Tomohide
Imagawa clan Nakamura Kankurō V as Imagawa Yoshimoto Kyōko Kishida as Jukeini Ichirō Zaitsu as Taigen Sessai
Later Hōjō clan Ryōtarō Sugi as Hōjō Ujiyasu Yūichi Aoyama as Hōjō Ujimasa Mai Okamoto as Oume Takao Inoue as Matsuda Norihide
Oda clan Ryo Ishibashi as Oda Nobunaga Yumi Asō as Nōhime Tsuyoshi Ihara as Oda Nobuyuki
Tokugawa clan Nakamura Hashinosuke III as Tokugawa Ieyasu Shinshō Nakamaru as Sakai Tadatsugu
Suwa clan Bandō Yasosuke V as Suwa Yorishige Yorie Yamashita as Nene Goryōnin
Murakami clan Tsunehiko Kamijō as Murakami Yoshikiyo
Others Ichikawa Danzō IX as Ashikaga Yoshiaki, the last shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate
TV schedule EpisodeOriginal airdateTitleDirected byRating1Akihiko Shigemitsu42.5%2Minoru Fuse47.3%3Seiji Ōmori48.6%4Akihiko Shigemitsu48.1%5Minoru Fuse45.0%6Seiji Ōmori49.2%7Akihiko Shigemitsu46.6%8Minoru Fuse48.6%9Seiji Ōmori46.5%10Shigeki Akiyama46.9%11Akihiko Shigemitsu43.9%12Minoru Fuse45.6%13Seiji Ōmori36.5%14Akihiko Shigemitsu44.0%15Minoru Fuse43.4%16Seiji Ōmori40.2%17Akihiko Shigemitsu39.3%18Hisashi Ichii39.1%19Minoru Fuse42.8%20Seiji Ōmori37.4%21Akihiko Shigemitsu36.8%22Shigeki Akiyama35.5%23Minoru Fuse34.1%24Akihiko Shigemitsu35.3%25Hisashi Ichii37.1%26Seiji Ōmori33.7%27Akihiko Shigemitsu36.4%2837.7%29Minoru Fuse34.7%30Seiji Ōmori31.5%31Minoru Fuse33.7%32Akihiko Shigemitsu31.8%33Shigeki Akiyama36.3%34Seiji Ōmori35.0%35Akihiko Shigemitsu38.0%36Minoru Fuse37.4%37Kōji Yoshikawa34.1%38Seiji Ōmori39.3%39Akihiko Shigemitsu36.8%40Hisashi Ichii29.5%41Seiji Ōmori36.4%42Akihiko Shigemitsu41.9%43Fumitaka Tamura37.7%44Seiji Ōmori34.5%45Hisashi Ichii36.9%46Seiji Ōmori35.3%47Akihiko Shigemitsu38.1%48Teru Tajima37.8%49Akihiko Shigemitsu38.1%5037.1%Average rating 39.2% - Rating is based on Japanese Video Research (Kantō region).
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External links Official Site