Tenchijin
Template:Short description Template:Infobox television Script error: No such module "Nihongo". is a 2009 Japanese super historical drama television series, and the 48th taiga drama of NHK. It aired every Sunday from January 4 to November 22, 2009, spanning 47 episodes.[Note 1] The drama centers on the life of 16th century samurai Naoe Kanetsugu, played by Satoshi Tsumabuki.
Production began on April 27, 2007. The drama is based on the novel of the same name by Masashi Hisaka and was adapted by Eriko Komatsu, with Michiru Ōshima as series composer.[1] The fourth episode of the series, Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., is the highest-rated episode of any Japanese drama in 2009.[2]
Plot
The protagonist of the drama, Naoe Kanetsugu, was taught by Uesugi Kenshin in his youth that to conquer the world is a trifling matter, but what matters is to live one's life with righteousness. After Uesugi's death, Naoe supports Uesugi Kagekatsu, who holds the destiny of Echigo province.
Production
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- Script – Eriko Komatsu, Kazue Matsushita
- Based on the novel by – Masashi Hisaka
- Narrator – Nobuko Miyamoto
- Music – Michiru Ōshima
- Historical research – Tetsuo Owada
- Action director – Kunishirō Hayashi
- Architectural research – Sei Hirai
- Clothing research – Kiyoko Koizumi
- Titling – Sōun Takeda
- Production coordinator – Shinsuke Naitō
- Casting – Yōichirō Takahashi
Production for Tenchijin began on April 27, 2007.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The usual taiga drama production had one-third of the expected number of scripts finished before shooting begun. Afterwards, audience reception was taken into account as the rest of the series was written.[3]
Cast
Starring role
- Satoshi Tsumabuki as Naoe Kanetsugu - born as Yoroku, then renamed as Higuchi Kanetsugu
- Seishiro Kato as Higuchi Yoroku (childhood Kanetsugu)
Naoe house
- Takako Tokiwa as Osen
- Michiko Kichise as Oyū - Osen's elder sister
- Joe Shishido as Naoe Kagetsuna
- Shinji Yamashita as Naoe Nobutsuna - Osen's first husband
- Hisako Manda as Oman - Osen's mother
- Seishiro Kato as Naoe Kanematsu (childhood Naoe Kaneaki - Kanetsugu's son - double role)
Higuchi house
- Masanobu Takashima as Higuchi Sōemon - Kanetsugu's father
- Misako Tanaka as Ofuji - Kanetsugu's mother.
- Kotaro Koizumi as Ōkuni Saneyori - Kanetsugu's younger brother
- Homare Mabuchi as Higuchi Yoshichi (childhood Saneyori)
- Miro Ebato as Kita - Kanetsugu's sister
Uesugi clan
- Kazuki Kitamura as Uesugi Kagekatsu
- Tetsuji Tamayama as Uesugi Kagetora
- Hiroshi Abe as Uesugi Kenshin - foster father of Kagekatsu and Kagetora
- Saki Aibu as Hanahime
- Manami Higa as Kikuhime
- Reiko Takashima as Sentōin
- Jin Maki as Usami Sadamitsu
Uesugi retainers and their family members
- Mikihisa Azuma as Izumisawa Hisahide
- Takuya Kusakawa as Mikihisa Azuma's second son, Matajiro
- Sei Hiraizumi as Kuribayashi Masayori
- Masayuki Suzuki as Fukazawa Toshishige
- Shingo Katsurayama as Abe Masayoshi
- Papaya Suzuki as Noborisaka Tōemon
- Satoru Matsuo as Sakurai Haruyoshi
- Minoru Matsumoto as Fukazawa Yashichirō
- Yasuhiro Arai as Kitajō Takahiro
- Kunishirō Hayashi as Kamiizumi Hidetsuna
- Kei Yamamoto as Yoshie Munenobu
- Nobuaki Kakuda as Kakizaki Haruie
- Takejō Aki as Kayo
- Shunsuke Sugiyama as Nishiyama Kanzaemon
- Takeshi Katō as Hokkō Zenshuku, a Zen priest, master of young Yoroku (Kanetsugu) and Kiheiji (Kagekatsu)
Oda clan
Toyotomi clan
- Takashi Sasano as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- Sumiko Fuji as Nene
- Shun Oguri as Ishida Mitsunari
- Kyōko Fukada as Yodo
- Hidekazu Mashima as Toyotomi Hidetsugu
- Go Wakabayashi as Shima Sakon
- Yoshizumi Ishihara as Fukushima Masanori
- Takamasa Suga as Ukita Hideie
- Hisayuki Nakajima as Asano Nagamasa
- Tsutomu Takahashi as Katō Kiyomasa
- Ryuhei Numata as Mashita Nagamori
- Tatsuhiro Yanase as Maeda Gen'i
- Tomoya Nakamura as Toyotomi Hideyori
- Umika Kawashima as Senhime (Ep. 46)
- Momoko Tanabe as young senhime (Ep. 45)
- Masayuki Kikuchi as Natsuka Masaie
- Kanji Tsuda as Ōtani Yoshitsugu
- Hiroshi Yamada as Konishi Yukinaga
Tokugawa clan
- Hiroki Matsukata as Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Akinori Nakagawa as Tokugawa Hidetada
- Seiji Matsuyama as Honda Masanobu
- Taro Kawano as Sakakibara Yasumasa
- Masato Nagamori as Ii Naomasa
- Daisuke Iijima as Sakai Tadatsugu
- Ippei Kanie as Honda Masazumi
- Masaya Kikawada as Honda Masashige
- Yukijiro Hotaru as Tōyama Yasumitsu
- Atsuko Hirata as Asahi no kata
Mōri clan
- Akira Nakao as Mōri Terumoto
- Takahiro Mizuma as Mōri Hidemoto
- Tadashi Yokouchi as Kobayakawa Takakage
- Yūsuke Kamiji as Kobayakawa Hideaki
Maeda clan
Takeda clan
Later Hōjō clan
Date clan
- Ryuhei Matsuda as Date Masamune
- Anne Watanabe as Princess Mego - Date Masamune's wife
- Yuta Sone as Katakura Kagetsuna
Sanada clan
- Yū Shirota as Sanada Yukimura
- Ryo Iwamatsu as Sanada Masayuki
- Masami Nagasawa as Hatsune - Sanada Yukimura's older sister.
- Yuji Shirakura as Sarutobi Sasuke - a fictional ninja.
Chōsokabe clan
Other
- Shigeru Kōyama as Sen no Rikyū
- Yoshino Kimura as Oryō, Rikyū's daughter
TV schedule
| Episode | Original airdate | Title | Directed by | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Hiroshi Kataoka | 24.7% |
| 2 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | 23.5% | |
| 3 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | 24.7% | |
| 4 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | 26.0% | |
| 5 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | 24.2% | |
| 6 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Yōichirō Takahashi | 24.4% |
| 7 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | 23.2% | |
| 8 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | 23.1% | |
| 9 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Hiroshi Kataoka | 20.3% |
| 10 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Yōichirō Takahashi | 22.2% |
| 11 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Masae Ichiki | 22.8% |
| 12 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | 21.7% | |
| 13 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Hiroshi Kataoka | 17.8% |
| 14 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Yōichirō Takahashi | 19.8% |
| 15 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | 19.6% | |
| 16 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Masae Ichiki | 21.1% |
| 17 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | 20.1% | |
| 18 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Hiroshi Kataoka | 16.7% |
| 19 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | 20.2% | |
| 20 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Yūsuke Noda | 21.6% |
| 21 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | 21.0% | |
| 22 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | 20.7% | |
| 23 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Hiroshi Kataoka | 22.0% |
| 24 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | 22.0% | |
| 25 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Masae Ichiki | 20.7% |
| 26 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | 20.3% | |
| 27 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Yūsuke Noda | 20.1% |
| 28 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | 21.8% | |
| 29 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Masae Ichiki | 21.9% |
| 30 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Hiroshi Kataoka | 21.0% |
| 31 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | 19.6% | |
| 32 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Yūsuke Noda | 24.8% |
| 33 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | 20.3% | |
| 34 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Hiroshi Kataoka | 14.9% |
| 35 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Masae Ichiki | 19.9% |
| 36 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | 20.4% | |
| 37 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Hiroshi Kataoka | 21.6% |
| 38 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | 20.0% | |
| 39 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | 19.5% | |
| 40 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Yūsuke Noda | 18.8% |
| 41 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | 17.7% | |
| 42 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Masae Ichiki | 18.2% |
| 43 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Hirokazu Ozaki | 20.9% |
| 44 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Masae Ichiki | 19.5% |
| 45 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Yūsuke Noda | 22.2% |
| 46 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Hiroshi Kataoka | 21.7% |
| 47 | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | 22.7% | |
| Average rating 21.2% - Rating is based on Japanese Video Research (Kantō region).[4] | ||||
Soundtrack and books
Soundtrack
- NHK Taiga Drama Tenchijin Original Soundtrack Vol.1 (February 18, 2009)
- NHK Taiga Drama Tenchijin Original Soundtrack Vol.2 (August 26, 2009)
- NHK Taiga Drama Tenchijin Original Soundtrack Vol.3 (October 21, 2009)
Books
- Official guide
- NHK Taiga Drama Story Tenchijin First Part Template:ISBN (December 20, 2008)
- NHK Taiga Drama Story Tenchijin Latter Part Template:ISBN (July 10, 2009)
- NHK Taiga Drama Story Tenchijin Last Part Template:ISBN (October 24, 2009)
- NHK Taiga Drama, Historical Handbook, Tenchijin Template:ISBN (December 20, 2008)
- Sōun Takeda - Writing about Samurai Template:ISBN (September 30, 2009)
- Novel
- Tenchijin First Volume Template:ISBN (September 26, 2009)
- Tenchijin Last Volume Template:ISBN (September 26, 2009)
- Tenchijin, New Edition, First Volume Template:ISBN (November 14, 2008)
- Tenchijin, New Edition, Latter Volume Template:ISBN (November 14, 2008)
- Tenchijin, New Edition, Last Volume Template:ISBN (November 14, 2008)
Notes
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- ↑ It is an unusual Taiga Drama as the final episode will be broadcast as early as November, due to the first phase of Saka no Ue no Kumo, a series of NHK Special Drama, being broadcast from November 29 to December 27.
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References
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External links
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- NHK website
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- Pages with script errors
- Taiga drama
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- 2009 Japanese television series endings
- Jidaigeki
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- Television series set in the 16th century
- Television series set in the 17th century
- Cultural depictions of Uesugi Kenshin
- Cultural depictions of Akechi Mitsuhide
- Cultural depictions of Oda Nobunaga
- Cultural depictions of Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- Cultural depictions of Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Cultural depictions of Date Masamune
- Cultural depictions of Sanada clan
- Television shows set in Niigata Prefecture
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