Aoi (TV series)
Aoi[1] (Japanese: 葵 徳川三代, Hepburn: Aoi Tokugawa Sandai) is a 2000 Japanese historical drama television series and the 39th NHK taiga drama. The series respectively stars Masahiko Tsugawa, Toshiyuki Nishida, and Onoe Tatsunosuke II as the first three Tokugawa shōguns. It aired from January 9 to December 17, 2000, and ran for a total of 49 episodes.[2]
| Aoi | |
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| Written by | James Miki |
| Directed by | Akihiko Shigemitsu Mitsunobu Ozaki Jō Satō Kazutaka Watanabe |
| Starring | Masahiko Tsugawa Toshiyuki Nishida Onoe Tatsunosuke II Onoe Kikunosuke V Miki Sakai Joe Shishido Shigeru Kōyama Kyōko Mitsubayashi Kuriko Namino Kei Suma Ryō Tamura Nanako Ōkōchi Minori Terada Teruhiko Saigō Ryunosuke Kaneda Nakamura Baijaku II Keizō Kanie Isao Natsuyagi Ryūzō Hayashi Kirin Kiki Nenji Kobayashi Ken Utsui Mayumi Ogawa Mitsuko Kusabue Isuzu Yamada Tōru Emori Shima Iwashita |
| Narrated by | Nakamura Baijaku II |
| Opening theme | "Time of Destiny" |
| Composer | Taro Iwashiro |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language | Japanese |
| No. of episodes | 49 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Atsushi Kawai |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | NHK |
| Original release | January 9 – December 17, 2000 |
Aoi is the first taiga drama to be fully filmed in high definition.[3]
Plot
The story begins with the battle of Sekigahara.
Cast
Tokugawa Shoguns
- Masahiko Tsugawa as Tokugawa Ieyasu - the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate
- Toshiyuki Nishida as Tokugawa Hidetada - the second shogun
- Onoe Tatsunosuke II as Tokugawa Iemitsu - the third shogun
- Takayuki Yamada as young Iemitsu
Tokugawa clan
- Shima Iwashita as Ogō - wife of Hidetada
- Isuzu Yamada as Odai no Kata - mother of Ieyasu
- Kyōko Mitsubayashi as Acha no Tsubone
- Minako Osanai as Oman no Kata
- Michiko Godai as Lady Chaa
- Kirin Kiki as Lady Kasuga
- Miki Sakai as Tokugawa Masako
- Yoko Moriguchi as Okaji no Kata
- Nanako Ōkōchi as Senhime
- Marika Matsumoto as young Senhime
- Fujita Okamoto as Yūki Hideyasu
- Hiroyuki Sakamoto as Matsudaira Tadateru
- Lie Katō as Irohahime
- Hayato Ōshiba as Tokugawa Yorifusa
- Manabu Hamada as Hoshina Masayuki
- Asumi Nakada as Haruhime
- Yukie Nakama as Oraku
- Gen Hongō as Tokugawa Yorinobu
- Yūtarō Yamamoto as Nagatomimaru
- Hideyuki Akabane as Tokugawa Yoshinao
- Ryūnosuke Kamiki as Gorōtamaru (young Yoshinao)
- Tomoyo Kurosawa as Ichihime
Fudai daimyo
- Shigeru Kōyama as Honda Masanobu
- Ikkei Watanabe as Honda Masazumi - the eldest son of Masanobu
- Joe Shishido as Honda Tadakatsu - one of the Shitennō
- Hiroshi Katsuno as Ii Naomasa - one of the Shitennō
- Kōji Shimizu as Sakakibara Yasumasa - one of the Shitennō
- Taro Ishida as Ōkubo Tadachika
- Takashi Sasano as Torii Mototada
- Ryūzō Hayashi as Doi Toshikatsu
- Mizuho Suzuki as Itakura Katsushige
- Masaki Terasoma as Itakura Shigemasa
- Hiroshi Iwasaki as Sakai Tadayo
- Katsumi Chō as Naitō Kiyonari
- Saburo Ishikura as Aoyama Tadatoshi
Toyotomi
- Onoe Kikunosuke V as Toyotomi Hideyori
- Mayumi Ogawa as Yodo-dono - the second wife of Hideyoshi
- Mei Kurokawa as Cha-cha (young Yodo, flashback)
- Mitsuko Kusabue as Kōdai-in - the first wife of Hideyoshi
- Mayuko Fukuda as Yuihime - the daughter of Hideyori
- Nenji Kobayashi as Katagiri Katsumoto
- Naoki Hosaka as Ōno Harunaga
- Shingo Hiramatsu as Oda Uraku
- Teruhiko Saigō as Sanada Yukimura
- Hiroshi Hatanaka as Kimura Shigenari
- Takayuki Sugō as Konishi Yukinaga
- Yoshisada Sakaguchi as Nakamura Kazu'uji
Go-Bugyō
- Tōru Emori as Ishida Mitsunari
- Shinichiro Mikami as Asano Nagamasa
- Kei Satō as Mashita Nagamori
- Toshio Kurosawa as Natsuka Masaie
- Hiroshi Kamiyama as Maeda Gen'i
Ishida family
- Masane Tsukayama as Ishida Masazumi
- Taketoshi Naito as Ishida Masatsugu
- Keiko Takahashi as Orin - wife of Mitsunari
- Isao Natsuyagi as Shima Sakon
Eastern Army
- Ryō Tamura as Tōdō Takatora
- Shinji Yamashita as Kuroda Nagamasa
- Shunsuke Kariya as Katō Kiyomasa
- Keizō Kanie as Fukushima Masanori
- Satoru Saitō as Yamauchi Kazutoyo
- Kei Suma as Date Masamune
- Hatsunori Hasegawa as Maeda Toshinaga
- Tsutomu Isobe as Ikeda Terumasa
- Hideaki Tezuka as Tsuda Shigemoto
- Hiroyuki Watanabe as Asano Yoshinaga
- Shirō Saitō as Tanaka Yoshimasa
- Taishi Horikoshi as Sanada Nobuyuki
- Naoki Takemura as Miyamoto Musashi
Western Army
- Toshiyuki Hosokawa as Ōtani Yoshitsugu
- Akaji Maro as Shimazu Yoshihiro
- Yūichirō Yamaguchi as Shimazu Toyohisa
- Kazuma Suzuki as Kobayakawa Hideaki
- Ichirō Zaitsu as Ankokuji Ekei
- Osami Nabe as Kikkawa Hiroie
- Shinya Ōwada as Tachibana Muneshige
Kyōgoku
Hosokawa
Imperial House
- Hiroyuki Kinoshita as Emperor Go-Yōzei
- Yasumasa Ōba as Emperor Go-Mizunoo
- Minori Terada as Nijō Akizane
- Junpei Morita as Sanjōnishi Sane'eda
- Noriko Ogawa as Sadako
- Aki Maeda as young Sadako
- Norihiro Inoue as Kajūji Mitsutoyo
- Kazutoyo Yoshimi as Karasumaru Mitsuhiro
Others
- Nakamura Baijaku II as Tokugawa Mitsukuni, a.k.a. Mito Kōmon
- Kazuyo Asari as Sassa Sukesaburō, a.k.a. Suke-san
- Machiko Washio as Asaka Tanpaku, a.k.a. Kaku-san
- Terence O'Brien as William Adams, a.k.a. Miura Anjin
- Tim Knowles as Richard Cocks
- Yatsuko Tan'ami as Kenshō-in, Takeda Shingen's daughter
- Natsuko Migiwa as Maeda Matsu
- Mikio Shimizu as Oda Nobukatsu
- Noriko Shōji as a reporter (herself)
- San'yūtei Rakutarō
- Ryunosuke Kaneda as Tenkai
- Hiroshi Ōkōchi as Konchiin Sūden
Staff
- Music : Taro Iwashiro
- Historical research : Shinzaburō Ōishi
- Architectural research : Kiyoshi Hirai
- Clothing research : Kiyoko Koizumi
- Sword fight arranger : Kunishirō Hayashi
TV schedule
| Episode | Title | Directed by | Original airdate | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Sōkatsu Sekigahara" (総括関ヶ原, The Battle of Sekigahara) | Akihiko Shigemitsu | January 9, 2000 | 22.6% |
| 2 | "Hideyoshi no Yuigon" (秀吉の遺言, The Taiko's Last Will) | January 16, 2000 | 22.6% | |
| 3 | "Gotairō Gobugyō" (五大老五奉行, Five Great Elders, Five Commissioners) | January 23, 2000 | 21.5% | |
| 4 | "Gōwan 58 sai" (豪腕五十八歳, The Titan at 58) | January 30, 2000 | 21.7% | |
| 5 | "Han-Shuryū" (反主流, Against the Mainstream) | Mitsunobu Ozaki | February 6, 2000 | 21.0% |
| 6 | "Takokuseki gun" (多国籍軍, Loyalties) | February 13, 2000 | 20.0% | |
| 7 | "Dangai jō" (弾劾状, Writ of Censure) | February 20, 2000 | 18.1% | |
| 8 | "Tasūha kōsaku" (多数派工作, Strength in Numbers) | February 27, 2000 | 18.7% | |
| 9 | "Fūun Ōgaki-jō" (風雲大垣城, Ōgaki Castle) | March 5, 2000 | 17.9% | |
| 10 | "Zenshōsen" (前哨戦, Opening Skirmish) | Akihiko Shigemitsu | March 12, 2000 | 20.0% |
| 11 | "Tenka Wakeme" (天下分け目, The Battle Begins) | March 19, 2000 | 19.9% | |
| 12 | "Kassen Sekigahara" (合戦関ヶ原, Sekigahara Bloodbath) | March 26, 2000 | 18.1% | |
| 13 | "Mitsunari Saigo" (三成最期, Mitsunari's End) | April 2, 2000 | 16.0% | |
| 14 | "Yodo no Menmoku" (淀の面目, Yodo Loses Face) | Mitsunobu Ozaki | April 9, 2000 | 17.3% |
| 15 | "Hanayome wa Sansai" (花嫁は三歳, The Three Year Old Bride) | April 16, 2000 | 16.1% | |
| 16 | "Hidetada no Himitsu" (秀忠の秘密, Hidetada's Secret) | April 23, 2000 | 17.1% | |
| 17 | "Senhime Konrei" (千姫婚礼, Princess Sen Weds) | April 30, 2000 | 17.1% | |
| 18 | "Ibo Kyōdai" (異母兄弟, Half Brothers) | Akihiko Shigemitsu | May 7, 2000 | 16.7% |
| 19 | "Shogun Hidetada" (将軍秀忠) | May 14, 2000 | 17.2% | |
| 20 | "Nigen Seiji" (二元政治, Dual Rule) | May 21, 2000 | 17.7% | |
| 21 | "Idainaru Chichi" (偉大なる父, Peerless Father) | Mitsunobu Ozaki | May 28, 2000 | 17.6% |
| 22 | "Ōgosho" (大御所) | June 4, 2000 | 17.6% | |
| 23 | "Kyūchū Jūdaijiken" (宮中重大事件, Scandal in the Court) | June 11, 2000 | 18.1% | |
| 24 | "Yabō no Rinkaku" (野望の輪郭, Outline of Ambition) | Akihiko Shigemitsu | June 18, 2000 | 15.8% |
| 25 | "Hideyori Jōraku" (秀頼上洛, Hideyori Goes to Kyoto) | June 25, 2000 | 14.5% | |
| 26 | "Habatsu Kōsō" (派閥抗争, Factional Rivalry) | July 2, 2000 | 17.7% | |
| 27 | "Hifun no Kaisen" (悲憤の開戦, Commencement of Hostilities) | July 9, 2000 | 16.4% | |
| 28 | "Osaka Fuyu no Jin" (大坂冬の陣, Osaka Winter Campaign) | Mitsunobu Ozaki | July 16, 2000 | 17.2% |
| 29 | "Osaka Natsu no Jin" (大坂夏の陣, Osaka Summer Campaign) | July 23, 2000 | 17.0% | |
| 30 | "Osaka-jō Enjō" (大坂城炎上, Osaka Castle Burns) | July 30, 2000 | 19.3% | |
| 31 | "Tadateru Kandō" (忠輝勘当, Tadateru is Disowned) | Akihiko Shigemitsu | August 6, 2000 | 17.4% |
| 32 | "Ieyasu no Shi" (家康の死, Ieyasu's Death) | August 13, 2000 | 17.8% | |
| 33 | "Tōshō Daigongen" (東照大権現) | August 20, 2000 | 18.4% | |
| 34 | "Gorakuin" (御落胤, Hidden Child) | Jō Satō | August 27, 2000 | 17.4% |
| 35 | "Takechiyo no Kussetsu" (竹千代の屈折, Takechiyo's Lesson) | September 3, 2000 | 18.9% | |
| 36 | "Kazuhime Judai" (和姫入内, Princess Kazu Enters the Court) | Mitsunobu Ozaki | September 10, 2000 | 19.2% |
| 37 | "Tadanao no Ranshin" (忠直の乱心, Tadanao Goes Mad) | September 17, 2000 | 20.8% | |
| 38 | "Utsunomiya Tsuri-tenjō" (宇都宮釣天井, Utsunomiya Trap Ceiling) | Akihiko Shigemitsu | October 1, 2000 | 19.4% |
| 39 | "Shogun Iemitsu" (将軍家光) | October 8, 2000 | 17.2% | |
| 40 | "Oyagokoro" (親ごころ, A Father's Love) | Kazutaka Watanabe | October 15, 2000 | 19.1% |
| 41 | "Gotaimen" (御対面, The Meeting) | October 22, 2000 | 15.1% | |
| 42 | "Nijō-jō Gyōkō" (二条城行幸, Imperial Visit) | Akihiko Shigemitsu | October 29, 2000 | 19.3% |
| 43 | "Onna no Isshō" (女の一生, A Woman's Lifetime) | November 5, 2000 | 17.2% | |
| 44 | "Ōji Kōtan" (皇子降誕, A Prince is Born) | November 12, 2000 | 18.9% | |
| 45 | "Kasuga no Tsubone" (春日局) | Jō Satō | November 19, 2000 | 20.2% |
| 46 | "Jotei Sokui" (女帝即位, Enthronement) | Mitsunobu Ozaki | November 26, 2000 | 18.8% |
| 47 | "San kyodai" (三兄弟, Three Brothers) | December 3, 2000 | 19.0% | |
| 48 | "Saraba Hidetada" (さらば秀忠, Farewell Hidetada) | Akihiko Shigemitsu | December 10, 2000 | 17.3% |
| 49 | "Meikun Zukuri" (名君づくり, The Making of a Wise Ruler) | December 17, 2000 | 20.3% | |
| Average rating 18.5% - Rating is based on Japanese Video Research (Kantō region). | ||||
References
- Clements, Jonathan; Tamamuro, Motoko (November 2003). The Dorama Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese TV Drama Since 1953. Berkeley, California: Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 1-880656-81-7. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
- "葵 徳川三代とは?" (in Japanese). kotobank. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
- "大河ドラマ 葵 徳川三代". NHK名作選 (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
全編ハイビジョンで撮影された最初の「大河ドラマ」
External links
- NHK website
- Aoi at IMDb
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