Segodon

is a 2018 Japanese historical drama television series and the 57th NHK taiga drama. It stars Ryohei Suzuki as Saigō Takamori, who has been dubbed the last true samurai.History Channel The Samurai, video documentary

Plot The drama follows the life of historical figure Saigō Takamori. Born the first son of a lower-class samurai, he was exiled two times and went through three marriages. He was one of the central figures of the Meiji Restoration but later rebelled against the government over dissatisfaction with Meiji reforms.

Cast Saigo family Ryohei Suzuki as Saigō Takamori Ao Watanabe as Kokichi (young Takamori) Keiko Matsuzaka as Saigō Masa, the mother of Takamori Morio Kazama as Saigō Kichibei, the father of Takamori Toshiyuki Nishida as Saigō Kikujirō, Takamori's son Yuki Imai as Teen Kikujirō Kairi Jō as Child Kikujirō Ai Hashimoto as Suga, the first wife of Takamori Haru Kuroki as Iwayama Ito, the third wife of Takamori Konomi Watanabe as young Ito Ryo Nishikido as Saigō Jūdō, one of Takamori's brothers Taiyō Saitō as Saigō Shingo (young Jūdō) Mone Kamishiraishi as Saigō Kiyo, the wife of Jūdō Gōta Watabe as Saigō Kichijirō, one of Takamori's brothers Taketo Arai as young Kichijirō Yuki Kashiwagi as Saigō Sono, the wife of Kichijirō Nanami Sakuraba as Ichiki (née Saigō) Koto, one of Takamori's sisters Yuki Kurimoto as young Koto Yūki Maekawa as Ichiki Sōsuke, Koto's son Yū Kayano as Saigō Yasu, one of Takamori's sisters Kumi Mizuno as Kimi, the grandmother of Takamori Kon Ōmura as Saigō Ryūemon, the grandfather of Takamori Muga Tsukaji (Drunk Dragon) as Kumakichi Mayuko Saigō as Saigō Sakurako Maika Hara as Saigō Taka, one of Takamori's sisters Yūki Yagi as Saigō Kikusō, Takamori's daughter

Ōkubo family Eita as Ōkubo Toshimichi Tatsuki Ishikawa as young Toshimichi Rie Mimura as Ōkubo Masu, the wife of Toshimichi Mitsuru Hirata as Ōkubo Jiemon, the father of Toshimichi Mariko Fuji as Ōkubo Fuku, the mother of Toshimichi Tamami Kusaka as Ōkubo Suma Yuki Uchida as Oyū

Satsuma Domain Ken Watanabe as Shimazu Nariakira, the master of Takamori Munetaka Aoki as Shimazu Hisamitsu Takeshi Kaga as Shimazu Narioki Rumiko Koyanagi as Yura Raita Ryu as Zusho Hirosato Seiya Osada as Shimazu Mochihisa Rasei Nakajima as young Mochihisa Naho Toda as Kiku Yukiya Kitamura as Ōyama Kakunosuke (later Ōyama Tsunayoshi) Naoki Inukai as young Kakunosuke Mitsuomi Takahashi as Arimura Shunsai (later Kaeda Nobuyoshi) Yūto Ikeda as young Shunsai Arata Horii as Murata Shinpachi Kenshirō Katō as young Shinpachi Ikki Sawamura as Akayama Yukie Jun Itoda as Katsura Hisatake Yu Tokui as Yamada Tamehisa Shūichirō Masuda as Arima Shinshichi Masaki Izawa as young Shinshichi Takurō Ōno as Nakamura Hanjirō Rukito Nakamura as young Hanjirō Manabu Hamada as Sakoda Tomonoshin Shiori Sugioka as Oaki Tomoya Warabino as Ebihara Shigekatsu Keita Machida as Komatsu Tatewaki Yoshimasa Kondo as Tanaka Yūnosuke Ayumi Tanida as Koba Den'nai Teppei Akashi as Narahara Kihachirō Yūki Izumisawa as Kawaji Toshiyoshi Hideo Sakaki as Shinohara Kunimoto Yūshin Shinohara as Beppu Shinsuke General public Rin Takanashi as Fuki Rinka Kakihara as young Fuki Taku Suzuki (Drunk Dragon) as Heiroku, Fuki's father Sumie Sasaki as Ishi, Kumakichi's grandmother Fujita Okamoto as Itagaki Yosaji Toshiyuki Kitami as Ijūin Naogorō, Suga's father Masayuki Shionoya as Iwayama Naoatsu, Ito's father The people of Amami Ōshima Fumi Nikaidō as Aikana, the second wife of Takamori Akira Emoto as Ryū Samin Midori Kiuchi as Ishichiyo Kane Natsuko Akiyama as Yuta Tsutomu Takahashi as Tomiken Honami Kurashita as Komurume Anna Sato as Satochiyo Kane The people of Okinoerabujima Renji Ishibashi as Kawaguchi Seppō Yoshiki Saitō as Tsuchimochi Masateru Yōko Ōshima as Tsuchimochi Tsuru

Chōshū Domain Tetsuji Tamayama as Kido Takayoshi Kenta Hamano as Itō Hirobumi Hayashiya Shōzō IX as Ōmura Masujirō Hikaru Futagami as Kusaka Genzui Osaomu Kaō as Shiraishi Shōichirō Riki Choshu as Kijima Matabei Manabu Ino as Kikkawa Kenmotsu Masayuki Satō as Miyoshi Shinzō

Tosa Domain Shun Oguri as Sakamoto Ryōma Asami Mizukawa as Oryō, the wife of Ryōma Shogo Yamaguchi as Nakaoka Shintarō Akira Otaka as Yamauchi Yōdō, the lord of Tosa Ryo Segawa as Gotō Shōjirō

Fukui Domain Kanji Tsuda as Matsudaira Shungaku Shunsuke Kazama as Hashimoto Sanai Asahi Yoshida as Nakane Yukie

Tokugawa shogunate Shota Matsuda as Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the last shōgun Kenichi Endō as Katsu Kaishū Naoki Matayoshi as Tokugawa Iesada, the 13th shōgun Tamotsu Kanshūji as Tokugawa Iemochi, the 14th shōgun Towa Araki as young Iemochi Naohito Fujiki as Abe Masahiro Shirō Sano as Ii Naosuke Shinji Asakura as Hotta Masayoshi Satoshi Jimbo as Nagano Shuzen Takahiro Fujimoto as Yamaoka Tesshū Jundai Yamada as Hiraoka Enshirō Masami Horiuchi as Itakura Katsukiyo Ōoku Keiko Kitagawa as "Tenshō-in" Atsuhime Yoko Minamino as Ikushima, the tutor of Atsuhime Pinko Izumi as Honjuin, Iesada's mother

Aizu and Kuwana Domains Shuji Kashiwabara as Matsudaira Katamori Ken Shōnozaki as Matsudaira Sadaaki

Imperial Court Nakamura Kotarō VI as Emperor Kōmei, the 121st emperor of Japan Nomura Man'nojō VI as Emperor Meiji, the 122nd emperor of Japan Shōfukutei Tsurube II as Iwakura Tomomi Tomiyuki Kunihiro as Konoe Tadahiro Nomura Manzō IX as Sanjō Sanetomi Takeshi Nadagi as Nakagawa-no-miya Kenichi Ogata as Nakayama Tadayasu Yasuto Kosuda as Prince Arisugawa Taruhito

The Government of Meiji Shugo Oshinari as Inoue Kaoru Shingo Murakami as Yamagata Aritomo Kiyohiko Shibukawa as Itagaki Taisuke Hiroyuki Onoue as Ōkuma Shigenobu Takaya Sakoda as Etō Shinpei

Foreigners Thane Camus as Harry Smith Parkes Hannah Grace as Mrs. Parkes Steve Wiley as Ernest Mason Satow Blake Crawford as Townsend Harris Gilles Beaufils as Léon Roches Noam Katz as Charles Lennox Richardson Nathan Berry as Dr. William Willis

Others Masatō Ibu as Tokugawa Nariaki, the father of Yoshinobu Onoe Kikunosuke V as Getshō Kimihiko Hasegawa as Date Munenari Takayasu Komiya as Tokugawa Yoshikatsu Michiko Tanaka as Tama Takashi Tome as Den'emon Hitori Gekidan as John Manjirō Haruna Kondō (Harisenbon) as Tora Michifumi Isoda as Naiki Jinzaburō, the first mayor of Kyoto Kōkichi Tanoue as Naoo Nakahara

Production

Production Credits Narrator – Toshiyuki Nishida Music – Harumi Fūki Historical research – Izumi Haraguchi, Manabu Ōishi and Michifumi Isoda Architectural research – Kiyoshi Hirai Costume designer – Kazuko Kurosawa Kagoshima dialect instructors – Takaya Sakoda and Kōkichi Tanoue

The series is based on the novel Segodon! by Mariko Hayashi which was first released in serial format starting February 2016 in the literature magazine Hon no Tabibito, and published as a book by Kadokawa Shoten the year after.

Casting Ryohei Suzuki was announced to portray the lead role of Saigō Takamori in Segodon on November 2, 2016. The main cast for the Saigo and Okuba family were announced on March 27, 2017, which includes Eita, Haru Kuroki, Nanami Sakuraba, Gōta Watabe, Muga Tsukaji, Morio Kazama, Mitsuru Hirata, and Keiko Matsuzaka. The main cast for the Shimazu family was announced on June 27, 2017, which includes Munetaka Aoki, Naho Toda, Yu Tokui, and Ken Watanabe. In September 2017, it was announced that Yuki Saito would not be able to play as Ikushima, and was eventually replaced by Yoko Minamino. By November 2017, Etsuko Ichihara also had to drop out as narrator of the series due to her ongoing recovery from encephalomyelitis, and was eventually replaced by Toshiyuki Nishida.

TV schedule EpisodeTitleDirected byOriginal airdateRating1Yūsuke Noda15.4%215.4%314.2%414.8%5Makoto Bonkobara15.5%615.1%7Takeshi Okada14.3%814.2%9Yūsuke Noda14.8%10Makoto Bonkobara14.4%11Yasuko Tsuda14.6%1214.1%13Yūsuke Noda13.0%14Takeshi Okada11.9%15Yūsuke Noda13.4%16Takeshi Okada11.1%17Yasuko Tsuda12.0%18Makoto Bonkobara14.4%1913.7%20Yūsuke Noda12.2%21Yoshimi Ishizuka12.0%22Takeshi Okada13.4%23Yoshimi Ishizuka13.4%24Makoto Bonkobara12.2%2512.7%26Yūsuke Noda12.2%2712.0%28Takeshi Okada11.1%29Yūsuke Horiuchi11.6%30Yūsuke Noda10.3%31Takeshi Okada11.0%32Yoshimi Ishizuka10.4%3313.2%34Makoto Bonkobara11.9%3511.7%36Yūsuke Horiuchi11.0%37Yūsuke Noda9.9%3810.2%39Makoto Bonkobara12.3%40Keisuke Ōshima11.7%41Yoshimi Ishizuka11.8%42Yūsuke Noda11.3%43Makoto Bonkobara11.6%44Yoshimi Ishizuka12.4%45Keisuke Ōshima11.5%46Makoto Bonkobara11.4%47Yūsuke Noda13.8%Average rating 12.7% - Rating is based on Japanese Video Research (Kantō region).

Omnibus EpisodeTitleOriginal airdateOriginal airtime1December 30, 201813:05 - 14:05214:05 - 14:55315:05 - 16:254 16:25 - 17:35

Soundtracks "Segodon" Taiga Drama Original Soundtrack I (February 21, 2018) "Segodon" Taiga Drama Original Soundtrack II (August 8, 2018) "Segodon" Taiga Drama Original Soundtrack III (October 10, 2018)

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