Dokuganryū Masamune

Dokuganryū Masamune (独眼竜政宗) is a 1987 Japanese television series. It is the 25th NHK taiga drama. The broadcast received an average viewer rating of 39.7 percent in the Kanto area.^[1]

Plot

Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan in 1590, but Date Masamune did not abandon his desire to control the nation.

Staff

• Original : Sōhachi Yamaoka
• Music : Shin’ichirō Ikebe
• Historical research : Keizō Suzuki

Cast

Starring role

• Ken Watanabe as Date Masamune, the one-eyed dragon

Date clan

• Kin'ya Kitaōji as Date Terumune, Masamune's father
• Shima Iwashita as Ohigashi no kata, Masamune's mother
• Junko Sakurada as Megohime (adult), Masamune's wife
• Kumiko Goto as Megohime (teenager)
• Tomokazu Miura as Date Shigezane, Masamune's cousin
• Teruhiko Saigō as Katakura Kojūrō, Masamune's most trusted vassal
• Keiko Takeshita as Katakura Kita, Kojūrō's half-sister
• Mikiko Otonashi as Tsuta, Kojūrō's wife
• Kenichi Okamoto as Date Kojirō, Masamune's younger brother
• Kumiko Akiyoshi as Iizaka no Tsubone, also known as Neko Gozen
• Yasuko Sawaguchi as Iroha, Masamune's first daughter
• Chosuke Ikariya as Oniiwa Sagetsu
• Shigeru Kōyama as Endō Motonobu
• Kyōzō Nagatsuka as Rusu Masakage
• Mitsuru Hirata as Suzuki Motonobu
• Minori Terada as Ōuchi Sadatsuna
• Machiko Washio as Ochako
• Shirō Sano as Goto Nobuyasu
• Issey Ogata as Kokubu Morishige
• Hironobu Nomura as Date Tadamune, Masamune's second son
• Raita Ryū as Date Sanemoto, Shigezane's father
• Michiko Godai as Tose, Shigezane's wife

Mogami clan

• Yoshio Harada as Mogami Yoshiaki
• Kaori Sakagami as Komahime, Yoshiaki's second daughter

Toyotomi clan

• Shintaro Katsu as Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the ruler of Japan
• Kaoru Yachigusa as Nene
• Kanako Higuchi as Yodo-dono, Hideyori's mother
• Eiji Okuda as Ishida Mitsunari
• Kisuke Yamashita as Toyotomi Hideyori, Hideyoshi's son
• Maiko Itō as Senhime
• Yoichi Hayashi as Asano Nagamasa
• Takanori Jinnai as Toyotomi Hidetsugu
• Yumiko Nogawa as Asahi no kata
• Takaaki Enoki as Ōno Harunaga
• Minoru Ōki as Maeda Toshiie
• Ken Teraizumi as Gamō Ujisato
• Gō Wakabayashi as Sanada Yukimura
• Tatsuo Matsumura as Katagiri Katsumoto
• Nobuyuki Katsube as Gotō Matabei
• Makoto Yuasa as Maeda Gen'i

Tokugawa clan

• Masahiko Tsugawa as Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate
• Hiroyuki Sanada as Matsudaira Tadateru, Iroha's husband
• Hiroshi Katsuno as Tokugawa Hidetada
• Shin Takuma as Tokugawa Iemitsu
• Junichi Nitta as Yūki Hideyasu
• Renji Ishibashi as Yagyū Munenori

Others

• Hideji Ōtaki as Kosai Sōitsu
• Akira Kubo as Tamura Kiyoaki, Megohime's father
• Isao Yamagata as Mukaidate Takumi
• Ryūnosuke Kaneda as Ōkubo Nagayasu
• Ryō Ikebe as Sen no Rikyū
• Kei Tani as Imai Sōkun
• José Cardini as Luis Sotelo
• Joe Grace as Sebastián Vizcaíno
• Gentarō Ishida as Hatakeyama Yoshitsugu
• Hiroshi Arikawa as Shinjō Danjō
• Shinichi Tsutsumi as Ashina Yoshihiro
• Ryūzaburō Ōtomo as Kubota Jūrō
• Shin Aomori as Furukawa Danjō

See also

• Sengoku period

References

External links

• Official website (Japanese)
• Dokuganryū Masamune at the Internet Movie Database
• Masamune had an audience with Hideyoshi (YouTube)