Minamoto no Yoshitsune (TV series)

Minamoto no Yoshitsune
Genre	Taiga drama
Written by	Genzō Murakami
Directed by	Naoya Yoshida etc
Starring	Onoe Kikunosuke VII Ken Ogata Junko Fuji Takashi Yamaguchi Mayumi Ogawa Masakazu Tamura Ryūtarō Ōtomo Osamu Takizawa Isuzu Yamada
Theme music composer	Toru Takemitsu
Opening theme	NHK Symphony Orchestra
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of episodes	52
Production
Running time	45 minutes
Original release
Network	NHK
Release	January 2 (1966-1-2) – December 25, 1966 (1966-12-25)
Related
Yoshitsune (TV series)

Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源義経) is a 1966 Japanese television series. It is the 4th NHK taiga drama. ^{[1] [2]}

First viewing rating: 32.5%. Highest audience rating: 32.5%. Average audience rating: 23.5%. ^[3]

Although only episodes 1, 33, and 52 still exist, it is the most surviving footage of the 1960s Taiga dramas.

Story

The drama deals with the Genpei War during late Heian period. Based on Genzō Murakami's novels "Minamoto no Yoshitsune". ^[4]

The story chronicles the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune. ^{[5] [6] [7]}

Production

• Kunishirō Hayashi - Sword fight arranger

Cast

Yoshitsune and people around him

• Onoe Kikunosuke VII as Minamoto no Yoshitsune
• Ken Ogata as Benkei
• Junko Fuji as Shizuka Gozen
• Isuzu Yamada as Tokiwa Gozen
• Hiroshi Akutagawa as Minamoto no Yoritomo
• Michiko Otsuka as Hojo Masako
• Kazuo Kitamura as Ōe no Hiromoto
• Jun Tazaki as Tosano bo Soshun
• Shin Kishida as Onuki Jiro
• Isao Hashizume

Taira clan

• Ryutaro Tashumi as Taira no Kiyomori
• Chiyonosuke Azuma as Taira no Munemori
• Kazuo Funaki as Taira no Atsumori
• Takashi Yamaguchi as Taira no Noritsune
• Shōbun Inoue as Taira no Moritsugu
• Takeshi Katō as Taira no Kagekiyo
• Chikao Ohtsuka as Fujiwara no Tadakiyo

Fujiwara clan

• Osamu Takizawa as Fujiwara no Hidehira
• Mayumi Ogawa as Shinobu
• Masakazu Tamura as Fujiwara no Tadahira
• Masao Shimizu as Fujiwara no Motonari
• Daisuke Katō as Kaneuri Kichiji
• Misako Watanabe as Akane

Others

• Bandō Mitsugorō IX as Takashina no Yasutsune
• Fumio Watanabe as Inoie Hachiro
• Machiko Washio as Ku
• Kenji Utsumi as Toraus
• Jūkei Fujioka as Adachi Saburō Kiyotsune
• Ryūtarō Ōtomo as Togashi Yasuie
• Shūichirō Moriyama as Aiko Sanjuro

References

1. "大河ドラマ　源義経". NHK. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
2. 日本放送協会（編） 20世紀放送史 上 日本放送出版協会 2001 P.495
3. "ビデオリサーチ NHK大河ドラマ 過去の視聴率データ". Video Research (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 6 January 2006.
4. "大河ドラマ　源義経". DDB. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
5. "源義経". NHK. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
6. "NHK大河ドラマ総集編 源義経 2枚組". アマゾン. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
7. "源義経とは". kotobank. Retrieved 30 December 2020.