Hideyoshi (TV series)

Hideyoshi (秀吉) is a 1996 Japanese historical television series. It is the 35th NHK taiga drama television series.

Plot
The story chronicles the life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

Production
Production Credits
 * Original – Taichi Sakaiya
 * Music – Reijirō Koroku
 * Titling – Hisaya Morishige
 * Narrator – Etsuko Ichihara, Ryuji Miyamoto
 * Historical research – Tetsuo Owada
 * Sword fight arranger - Kunishirō Hayashi

Cast
Starring role
 * Naoto Takenaka as Hideyoshi

Toyotomi clan

 * Yasuko Sawaguchi as One - wife of Hideyoshi
 * Etsuko Ichihara as Naka - mother of Hideyoshi
 * Ichiro Zaitsu as Chikuami - stepfather of Hideyoshi
 * Masanobu Takashima as Toyotomi Hidenaga - younger brother of Hideyoshi
 * Naomi Hosokawa as Sato - younger sister of Hideyoshi
 * Takako Matsu as Cha-cha - concubine of Hideyoshi
 * Hiroyuki Sanada as Ishida Mitsunari
 * Shun Oguri as Sakichi (young Mitsunari)
 * Atsushi Onita as Hachisuka Masakatsu
 * Ikkō Furuya as Takenaka Hanbei
 * Masatō Ibu as Kuroda Kanbei
 * Yosuke Asari as young Ukita Hideie

Oda clan

 * Tetsuya Watari as Oda Nobunaga
 * Hiroaki Murakami as Akechi Mitsuhide
 * Narimi Arimori as Tsumaki Hiroko - wife of Mitsuhide
 * Yōko Nogiwa as Omaki no kata - mother of Mitsuhide
 * Eriko Tamura as Akechi Tama
 * Mitsuko Yorichika as Oichi - younger sister of Nobunaga
 * Akira Nakao as Shibata Katsuie
 * Yasunori Danta as Takigawa Kazumasu
 * Saburō Shinoda as Niwa Nagahide
 * Masahiro Matsuoka as Mori Ranmaru
 * Hideo Takamatsu as Hayashi Sado no Kami
 * Samy Pop as Yasuke
 * Junkichi Orimoto as Sakuma Nobumori
 * Tōru Watanabe as Maeda Toshiie
 * Azusa Nakamura as Maeda Matsu

Tokugawa clan

 * Masahiko Nishimura as Tokugawa Ieyasu
 * Joe Shishido as Honda Masanobu
 * Naoya Makoto as Ishikawa Kazumasa
 * Ryū Manatsu as Sakai Tadatsugu
 * Maki Ishikawa as Lady Tsukiyama
 * Shin'ichirō Satō as Matsudaira Nobuyasu

Others

 * Hidekazu Akai as Ishikawa Goemon - best friend of Hideyoshi
 * Mayo Suzukaze as Otaki - wife of Goemon
 * Tatsuya Nakadai as Sen no Rikyū - a tea master
 * Kōji Tamaki as Ashikaga Yoshiaki - the 15th and last shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate
 * Aki Yashiro as Osen
 * Osamu Saka as Satomura Joha
 * Terry O'Brien as Luís Fróis
 * Masakane Yonekura as Imagawa Yoshimoto
 * Ryūnosuke Kaneda as Saitō Dōsan
 * Kiyoshi Nakajō as Ankokuji Ekei

Broadcasting in the United States
Circa 1997–98, New Jersey Network would air the show subtitled in English on Sunday evenings at 11:00pm EST. However, there is no physical domestic release of this series on VHS or DVD.