Draft:Nobunaga (TV series)

Nobunaga: King of Zipang (信長 KING OF ZIPANGU) is the 30th Taiga drama that premiered in 1992 on NHK. The broadcast received an average viewer rating of 24.6 percent in the Kanto area with the highest viewing rating of 33.0%.

Plot
The drama is set during the Sengoku period.

The story covers the life of Oda Nobunaga from young childhood to his unexpected end, as narrated by the European missionary Luís Fróis from an outsider's perspective into 16th century Japan.

Starring role

 * Naoto Ogata  as Oda Nobunaga
 * Kōsuke Morita as Oda Kippōshi (child Nobunaga)
 * Ryūmei Yamane as Oda Nobunaga (teenager)

Oda clan

 * Momoko Kikuchi as Nōhime, Nobunaga's wife and Saitō Dōsan's daughter
 * Yūki Eimoto as teenager Nōhime
 * Keiko Takahashi as Dota Gozen (Rui), Nobuhide's wife and the mother of Nobunaga, Nobuyuki, and Oichi
 * Miho Takagi as Lady Ikoma Kitsuno (Shino), Nobunaga's first concubine and mother of Nobutada, Nobukatsu, and Tokuhime
 * Isako Washio as Oichi, Nobunaga's younger sister and mother of the Three Azai Sisters
 * Miho Nakano as young Oichi
 * Mayumi Wakamura as Onabe-no-kata, one of Nobunaga's concubines
 * Ryūzō Hayashi as Oda Nobuhide, Nobunaga's father
 * Eiji Funakoshi as Oda Nobusada, Nobunaga's grandfather
 * Toshihide Tonesaku as Oda Nobutada, Nobunaga's eldest son and heir
 * Daichi Ruike as Oda Kimyōmaru (child Nobutada)
 * Masazumi Terazawa, Hiroshi Aoki as young Nobutada
 * Tetsuya Fujita as teenager Nobutada
 * Mamoru Ōizumi as Oda Nobukatsu, Nobunaga's second son
 * Shintarō Tahara as Oda Chasenmaru (young Nobukatsu)
 * Megumi Narita as Tokuhime, Nobunaga's eldest daughter and wife of Matsudaira Nobuyasu
 * Naomi Mikai, Aki Inoue, Yūko Nishimura as young Gotoku
 * Kazuto Kishimoto as Oda Nobuhiro, Nobunaga's older brother and Nobuhide's eldest illegitimate son
 * Yasunori Murada as teenager Nobuhiro
 * Naoki Hosaka as Oda Nobuyuki, Nobunaga's younger brother and rival
 * Masato Uchiyama as Oda Kanjūrō (child Nobuyuki)
 * Daisuke Ōtomo as teenager Nobuyuki
 * Towako Kimijima as Kiyoshi, Nobuyuki's wife and later Ikeda Tsuneoki's wife
 * Yūji Kanada as Oda Nobuharu, Nobunaga's younger half-brother
 * Akio Hasegawa as Oda (Tsuda) Nobumitsu, Nobunaga's uncle
 * Takanori Higuchi as Oda Nobutsugu, Nobunaga's uncle
 * Shingō Yatsuda as Oda Hidetaka, Nobunaga's younger brother
 * Kōichi Kase as Oda Nobuyasu, Nobunaga's uncle
 * Katsuki Tanaka as Oda Nobutoki, Nobunaga's younger half-brother

Nobunaga's vassals and their associations

 * Ken Utsui as Hayashi Hidesada
 * Koji Matoba as Ikeda Tsuneoki
 * Noriyuki Sakamoto as young Tsuneoki
 * Sakae Takita as Shibata Katsuie
 * Tōru Nakamura as Kinoshita Tōkichirō/Hashiba Hideyoshi
 * Miho Nakayama as Nene, Hideyoshi's wife
 * Michael Tomioka/Michael Anthony Sheridan as Akechi Mitsuhide, Nōhime's first cousin
 * Ryō Ono as Akechi Hidemitsu
 * Keiko Imamura as Hosokawa Gracia, Mitsuhide's daughter
 * Tomoko Ikuta as Yui, Mitsuhide's daughter and Gracia's older sister
 * Saburō Shinoda as Inaba Yoshimichi
 * Ken Tanaka as Sakuma Nobumori
 * Kojiro Hongo as Sakuma Morishige
 * Hideaki Nitani as Hirate Masahide
 * Arthur Kuroda as Hirate Hisahide
 * Nobuo Tsukamoto as Naitō Katsusuke
 * Toshio Shiba as Takigawa Kazumasu
 * Tetta Sugimoto as Niwa Nagahide
 * Jun Hashizume to Maeda Toshiie
 * Hiroshi Katsuno as Hosokawa Fujitaka
 * Hideki Kobayashi as Hosokawa Tadaoki, Gracia's husband
 * Junpei Morita as Kawajiri Hidetaka
 * Shinichirō Mikami as Mori Yoshinari
 * Tadamasa Nojiri as Mori Nagayoshi
 * Kotarō Ryū as Mori Ranmaru
 * Shōtarō Ashida as Mori Bōmaru
 * Shunta Fuchino as Saitō Toshimitsu
 * Teruo Ishiyama as Fuwa Mitsuharu
 * Akira Nishida as Murai Sadakatsu
 * Ken Aoki as Mōri Yoshikatsu
 * Kōji Katata as Hattori Kazutada
 * Kōji Shimizu as Matsunaga Hisahide
 * Hirotarō Honda as Araki Murashige
 * Zensō Shimizu as Takayama Tomoteru
 * Norimasa Fuke as Dom Justo Takayama

Other daimyō/warlords

 * Hiromi Go as Matsudaira Motonobu/Tokugawa Ieyasu, Lord of Mikawa Province and Nobunaga's ally
 * Yoshie Shimamura as Lady Tsukiyama, Ieyasu's first wife
 * Ryō Hayakawa as Matsudaira Nobuyasu, Ieyasu's first heir, Tokuhime's husband, and Nobunaga's son-in-law
 * Shō Kawashima as young Nobuyasu
 * Takeshi Ōbayashi as Mizuno Nobumoto, Ieyasu's maternal uncle
 * Shinya Owada as Sakai Masachika, Matsudaira/Tokugawa's innkeeper and one of Ieyasu's important vassals from youth
 * Kunio Hayashi as Sakai Tadatsugu
 * Yoshimichi Nagamune as Ishikawa Ienari
 * Shinya Ono as Hiraiwa Chikayoshi
 * Gō Takashina as Honda Shigetsugu
 * Yūsuke Takita as Torii Tadayoshi, an elder of the Matsudaira/Tokugawa's vassals
 * Shinsuke Ashida as Saitō Dōsan, Lord of Mino Province and Nobunaga's father-in-law
 * Shun Hirooka as Saitō Yoshitatsu, Dōsan's son
 * Hiroyuki Watari as Saitō Tatsuoki, Yoshikatsu's son
 * Hiroshi Yamamoto as Shiba Yoshimune
 * Kōji Yamamoto as Shiba Yoshikane, Yoshimune's eldest son
 * Terutake Tsuji as Oda Nobutomo, head of the Oda Yamato-no-kami family, the overlord ruler of Owari Province
 * Mizuho Suzuki as Sakai Daizen
 * Teruhiko Shibata as Imagawa Yoshimoto, Lord of Suruga Province and young Ieyasu's superior
 * Hajime Tawara as Asahina Yasuyoshi, a senior vassal of the Imagawa clan
 * Minori Terada as Azai Hisamasa, Nagamasa's father
 * Takurō Tatsumi as Azai Nagamasa, Lord of northern Ōmi Province, Oichi's first husband, and Nobunaga's brother-in-law
 * Kanako Tahara as Chacha, Oichi's eldest daughter with Nagamasa
 * Rina Tsugawa as Gō/Oeyo, Oichi's second daughter with Nagamasa
 * Jirō Okazaki as Azai Masazumi, a vassal of the Azai clan
 * Keiichi Andō as Azai Inori, Nagamasa's vassal
 * Takashi Sawa as Atsuji Sadayuki, a vassal for the Azai and Oda clans
 * Kōki Kataoka as Isono Kazumasa
 * Rokurō Abe as Ōnogi Hidetoshi, Azai clan's retainer
 * Sōichirō Kitamura as Asakura Yoshikage, Lord of Echizen Province
 * Motoyoshi Tashima as Asakura Kageaki
 * Shunichi Toda as Asakura Kagetake
 * Masakazu Itō as Asakura Kagetsune
 * Yasuo Miyata as Ashikaga Yoshiteru, 13th Ashikaga shōgun
 * Juraku Hanayagi III as Ashikaga Yoshiaki, 15th and last Ashikaga shōgun
 * Yasuhiro Arai as Wada Koremasa, served the shōgun and Nobunaga
 * Kanji Watanabe as Mitsubuchi Fujihide
 * Katsuhiko Yokomitsu as Ueno Kiyonobu
 * Takaya Kuroda as Takeda Katsuyori, Takeda Shingen's son
 * Hitoshi Kitatani as young Katsuyori
 * Kenji Kohashi as Takeda Nobukatsu, Katsuyori's heir
 * Susumu Kurobe as Takeda Nobukado, a retainer of the Takeda clan
 * Tomoko Abe as Hōjō-fujin, Katsuyori's wife and daughter of Hōjō Ujiyasu
 * Shigeru Araki as Baba Nobuharu
 * Takehiro Koyama as Yamagata Masakage
 * Shinshō Nakamaru as Miyoshi Nagayoshi
 * Sei Hiraizumi as Rokkaku Yoshikata
 * Kōji Yamaguchi as Rokkaku Yoshisuke

Jesuits/European missionaries

 * Franck Neel as Luís Fróis, the narrator of the story
 * Adam Robbins as child Luís Fróis
 * Junji Inagawa as Ryōsai Lorenzo, a Japanese convert to the Christian faith
 * Terry O'Brien as Francis Xavier and Gaspar Vilela
 * Gabriel Melak as Luis de Almeida
 * Carlos Molina as Cosme de Torres
 * Almeida Joffre as Juan Fernández
 * Brian Burke-Gaffney as Alessandro Valignano
 * Franco Maurilli as Gnecchi-Soldo Organtino
 * Giovanni Pucci as Francisco Cabral
 * Hiun Ryū as Anjirō
 * Ried Jackson as Yasuke
 * Naoki Kimura as Itō Mancio
 * Kōji Shigetomi as younger Mancio
 * Masazumi Nagazaki as Miguel Chijiwa
 * Hirotada Saitō as younger Miguel
 * Ryōsuke Ukamatsu as Martinão Hara
 * Souten Shida as younger Martinão
 * Tōru Mitsuyuki as Julian Nakaura
 * Fabio Bussoti as Diogo de Mesquita
 * Antonio Cantellini as Pope Gregory XIII

Others

 * Kei Satō as Imai Sōkyū
 * Takao Itō as Sen no Rikyū
 * Minoru Uchida as Tsuda Sōgyū
 * Takashi Kawai as Yamanoue Sōji
 * Hidenobu Nojima as Shimai Sōshitsu
 * Junji Shimada as Hibiya Ryōkei
 * Shū Itō as Konishi Yukinaga
 * Fumiya Itō as Ken'nyo
 * Yukata Hara as Kyō'nyo, Ken'nyo's eldest son
 * Katsumasa Uchida as Asayama Nichijō
 * Noboru Matsuhashi as Asukai Masaharu
 * Masami Horiuchi as Kajūji Harutoyo
 * Shun Satō as Hino Terusuke

Fictional characters

 * Mikijirō Hira as Kano Zuiten, secondary main character and the Oda clan's diviner
 * Kazuma Matsubara as Kihachi, Hideyoshi's close pal
 * Ikuko Yamamoto as Matsu, Rui's maid and Zuiten's mistress
 * Yasuo Kawaguchi as Anjō Nagaie
 * Chikako Ōyama as Yone/An/Yasu, Nagaie's concubine who became Nobuhide's concubine
 * Mai Okamoto as Ryū, Nobunaga's sister who became Saitō Yoshikatsu's wife
 * Masuyo Iwamoto as Kanae, Lady Tsukiyama's maid
 * Arihiro Hase as Yoshikichi
 * Kōichi Asuka as Munekichi
 * Morooka Moro as Diogo
 * Tetsuo Morishita as Shōemon
 * Ōsamu Katō as Sano Gen'uemon
 * Hiroshi Makita as Nagara Shinkurō

Production staff

 * Original work/screenplay: Seiken Tamukai
 * Music: Kurōdo Mōri
 * Narration: Rancieux Christophe, Sachiko Kagami (summary avant title), Katsumi Izutsuya (main broadcast avant title)
 * Performance: Tokyo Concert
 * Theme Music Performance: NHK Symphony Orchestra
 * Theme Music Condoctor: Tadaaki Otaka
 * Theme Music Lyrics: Seiken Tamukai
 * Theme Music Chorus: The Philharmonic Chorus of Tokyo
 * Theme Music Vocalist Solo: Shō Hisaoka
 * Supervision: Kiichi Masuda
 * Title Stylist: Hirohide Watanabe
 * Historical Research: Masato Okada
 * Architectural Research: Akira Naitō
 * Costume Research: Kiyoko Koizumi
 * Choreography Coach: Kiyokata Saruwaka II
 * Tea Ceremony Instructor: Sōtaku Suzuki
 * Horsemanship Instructor: Shigemitsu Tanaka, Mitsuhiro Mamiya
 * Sword fighting arranger/Martial arts Instructor: Kunishirō Hayashi
 * Gunmanship Instructor: Yumio Nawa
 * Taiko drum instructor: Mikio Yamamoto
 * Materials provider: Taeko Uta
 * Nagoya dialect Coach: Atsuko Serizawa
 * Portuguese Instructor: Silvia Abei
 * Imperial Court Speech Instructor: Kiriyo Tomonaga
 * Noh Instructor: Tatsuyuki Sakurama
 * Prayer Instructor: Zōtsune Satō
 * Traditional Japanese music: Masakuni Kineya
 * Collaboration: Gifu Prefecture, Gifu, Kakamigahara, Ōno, Fukui, Yamanashi Prefecture, Kobuchisawa, Yamanashi, Ena, Gifu, Iwamura, Gifu, Takane, Yamanashi, Shiga Prefecture, Azuchi, Shiga
 * Produced by: Masatsugu Yagi, Ikuo Katō
 * Art: Sensuke Tajima, Kiyokazu Aoki
 * Technology: Nobuyoshi Ōnuma, Kunihiko Takahashi
 * Photography: Kunio Miura, Toshinori Satō
 * Lighting: Kiyoshi Noshita, Shizuo Nakayama
 * Audio: Naomitsu Kondō, Kiyoto Suzuki
 * Sound effects: Kiyoshi Hiratsuka, Kinnosuke Nishinomiya, Hidenori Kanno
 * Video technology: Takeo Terada, Kazuo Yokoyama
 * Recording/editing: Itaru Abe, Miyuki Ishihara
 * Production work: NHK
 * Co-production: NHK ENTERPRISES, INC.
 * Production supervisor: Hirofumi Watanabe
 * Production collaboration: NHK ART,Inc., NHK Media Technology, Inc.
 * Directors: Akihiko Shigemitsu, Takashi Komatsu, Ryūichi Komatsu, Takeshi Shibata, Tōru Kagata, Ken Okada, Kunio Yoshikawa