Yae's Sakura
| Yae's Sakura | |
|---|---|
 Promotional poster | |
| Genre | Taiga drama |
| Written by | Mutsumi Yamamoto |
| Starring | Haruka Ayase Hidetoshi Nishijima Joe Odagiri Hiroki Hasegawa Jun Fubuki Yutaka Matsushige Kyōko Hasegawa Tetsuji Tamayama Go Ayano Shun Oguri Meisa Kuroki Kotaro Koizumi Shido Nakamura Takumi Saito Yoshiko Miyazaki Katsuhisa Namase Kumiko Akiyoshi Masaya Kato Masahiro Takashima Kōji Kikkawa Ichikawa Somegorō VII Izumi Inamori Takashi Sorimachi Eiji Okuda Hiroaki Murakami Hiroki Matsukata Toshiyuki Nishida |
| Narrated by | Mitsuko Kusabue |
| Theme music composer | Ryuichi Sakamoto |
| Composer | Nobuyuki Nakajima |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language | Japanese |
| No. of episodes | 50 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 48 x 45 minutes 1 x 75 minutes 1 x 60 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | NHK |
| Release | January 6 – December 15, 2013 |
Yae no Sakura (八重の桜, Yae's Sakura) is a 2013 Japanese television series. It is the 52nd NHK taiga drama. The story focuses on Niijima Yae, who is portrayed by Haruka Ayase.[1] Yae is a strong believer in women's rights and the story follows her journey in Japan, during the time it is opened up to Western ideas.
Cast
- Haruka Ayase as Niijima Yae
- Rio Suzuki as childhood Yae
- Her family
- Hiroki Hasegawa as Kawasaki Shonosuke
- Joe Odagiri as Joseph Hardy Neesima
- Hidetoshi Nishijima as Yamamoto Kakuma
- Jun Fubuki as Yamamoto Saku
- Yutaka Matsushige as Yamamoto Gonpachi
- Kyōko Hasegawa as Higuchi Ura
- Mitsuki Tanimura as Oda Tokie
- Masahiro Toda as Tokuzō
- Aizu Domain
- Go Ayano as Matsudaira Katamori
- Izumi Inamori as Matsudaira Teru
- Toshiyuki Nishida as Saigō Tanomo
- Ayame Goriki as Hinata Yuki
- Meisa Kuroki as Nakano Takeko
- Takumi Saito as Jinbo Shuri
- Masane Tsukayama as Jinbo Kuranosuke
- Tetsuji Tamayama as Yamakawa Hiroshi
- Mikako Ichikawa as Yamakawa Futaba
- Ryo Katsuji as Yamakawa Kenjirō
- Kumiko Akiyoshi as Yamakawa En
- Kiko Mizuhara as Ōyama Sutematsu
- Morio Kazama as Hayashi Yasusada
- Hiroyuki Ikeuchi as Kajiwara Heima
- Shido Nakamura as Sagawa Kanbei
- Shingo Yanagisawa as Kayano Gonbei
- Shihori Kanjiya as Fujita Tokio
- Junko Miyashita as Takagi Sumie
- Tokugawa shogunate
- Shinsengumi
- Government of Meiji
- Katsuhisa Namase as Katsu Kaishū
- Mitsuhiro Oikawa as Kido Takayoshi
- Kazuki Kosakai as Iwakura Tomomi
- Satoshi Tokushige as Ōkubo Toshimichi
- Masaya Kato as Itagaki Taisuke
- Takashi Sorimachi as Ōyama Iwao
- Eisuke Sasai as Sanjō Sanetomi
- Toranosuke Katō as Itō Hirobumi
- Manabu Ino as Yamagata Aritomo
- Chōshū Domain
- Satsuma Domain
- Others
- Hiroaki Murakami as Matsudaira Yoshinaga
- Eiji Okuda as Sakuma Shōzan
- Goro Ibuki as Tokugawa Nariaki
- Kyūsaku Shimada as Maki Yasuomi
- Hiroki Matsukata as Ōgakiya Seihachi
- Eric Bossick as Carl Wilhelm Heinrich Lehmann
- Mayuko Kawakita as Tsuda Umeko
- Ichikawa Somegorō VII as Emperor Kōmei
- Kenji Masaki as Sakamoto Ryōma
Reception
In 2014, the series was nominated for the International Emmy Award for best drama series.
References
- ^ Corkill, Edan (January 4, 2013). "NHK spotlights gunslinging daughter of the north in yearlong Sunday drama". The Japan Times.
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