Haru no Sakamichi (TV series)

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Haru no Sakamichi
Genre Taiga drama
Written byGihō Sugiyama
Starring Nakamura Kinnosuke
Chitose Kobayashi
Yoshio Harada
Isamu Nagato
Masakazu Tamura
Ryō Tamura
Rumi Matsumoto
Hiroshi Akutagawa
Atsuo Nakamura
Go Wakabayashi
Koji Shimizu
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Shōgo Shimada
Hideki Takahashi
Kazuo Funaki
Kyōko Kishida
Tomoko Naraoka
Yoko Tsukasa
Ichikawa Ebizō X
So Yamamura
Theme music composer Akira Miyoshi
Opening theme NHK Symphony Orchestra
Country of originJapan
Original languageJapanese
No. of episodes52
Production
Running time45 minutes
Release
Original network NHK
Original releaseJanuary 1971 (1971-01) 
December 1971 (1971-12)

Haru no Sakamichi (春の坂道) is a 1971 Japanese television series. It is the ninth NHK taiga drama. [1]

Contents

Story

Shin Heike Monogatari deals with the early Edo period. Based on Sōhachi Yamaoka's novel by the same title. [2] [3]

The story chronicles the life of Yagyū Munenori [3] [4]

Production

Production Credits

Cast

Yagyū Clan

Tokugawa Clan

Toyotomi Clan

Others

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References

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