Taira no Kiyomori (TV series)

Taira no Kiyomori (平清盛) is a 2012 Japanese historical television series. It is the 51st NHK taiga drama.

Production
Production Credits
 * Original – Yuki Fujiumoto
 * Music – Takashi Yoshimatsu
 * Titling – Shōko Kanazawa
 * Narrator – Masaki Okada
 * Historical research – Masaaki Takahashi
 * Sword fight arranger - Kunishirō Hayashi
 * Architectural research – Sei Hirai
 * Clothing research – Kiyoko Koizumi

Taira clan (Heike)

 * Kenichi Matsuyama as Taira no Kiyomori, a military leader of the late Heian period of Japan
 * Ōshirō Maeda as young Kiyomori
 * Kiichi Nakai as Taira no Tadamori, the father of Taira no Kiyomori
 * Atsuo Nakamura as Taira no Masamori
 * Kōsuke Toyohara as Taira no Tadamasa
 * Nakamura Baijaku II as Taira no Iesada
 * Kyoko Fukada as Taira no Tokiko, Kiyomori's wife
 * Ai Kato as Takashina no Akiko
 * Takaya Kamikawa as Taira no Morikuni
 * Go Morita as Taira no Tokitada
 * Takahiro Fujimoto as Itō Tadakiyo
 * Shunsuke Daito as Taira no Iemori
 * Takahiro Nishijima as Taira no Yorimori
 * Masataka Kubota as Taira no Shigemori
 * Takuma Hiraoka as young Shigemori
 * Hideo Ishiguro as Taira no Munemori
 * Takuya Kusakawa as young Munemori
 * Koji Kato as Usagimaru
 * Mahiro Takasugi as Kousagimaru
 * Emi Wakui as Ikenozenni
 * Riko Narumi as "Kenshunmon-in" Shigeko
 * Fumi Nikaido as Taira no Tokuko

Minamoto clan (Genji)

 * Fumiyo Kohinata as Minamoto no Tameyoshi, a head of the Minamoto samurai clan
 * Hiroshi Tamaki as Minamoto no Yoshitomo
 * Rena Tanaka as Yura Gozen
 * Emi Takei as Tokiwa Gozen
 * Masaki Okada as Minamoto no Yoritomo, Yoshitomo's third son / Narrator
 * Taishi Nakagawa as young Yoritomo
 * Ryunosuke Kamiki as Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Yoshitomo's ninth son
 * Ryunosuke Hashino as young Yoshitsune (a.k.a. Ushiwakamaru)
 * Munetaka Aoki as Benkei
 * Takashi Ukaji as Minamoto no Yorimasa
 * Kenichi Endō as Hōjō Tokimasa
 * Mayumi Tsukiyama as Maki no Kata
 * Anne as Hōjō Masako
 * Takuya Nakayama as Hōjō Yoshitoki
 * Takashi Tsukamoto as Tōkurō
 * Saki Fukuda as Yae, Yoritomo's first wife.

Imperial family

 * Shirō Itō as Emperor Shirakawa, the 72nd emperor of Japan
 * Hiroshi Mikami as Emperor Toba, the 74th emperor of Japan
 * Arata Iura as Emperor Sutoku, the 75th emperor of Japan
 * Takumi Kitamura as Emperor Konoe, the 76th emperor of Japan
 * Shota Matsuda as Emperor Go-Shirakawa, the 77th emperor of Japan
 * Satoshi Tomiura as Emperor Nijō, the 78th emperor of Japan
 * Yudai Chiba as Emperor Takakura, the 80th emperor of Japan
 * Yūta Tanaka as Emperor Antoku, the 81st emperor of Japan

Others

 * Naohito Fujiki as Saigyō
 * Seiko Matsuda as Gion no nyōgo
 * Yasuko Matsuyuki as Bifukumon'in
 * Rei Dan as Taikenmon'in, the consort of Emperor Toba
 * Sadao Abe as Shinzei
 * Koji Yamamoto as Fujiwara no Yorinaga
 * Keisuke Horibe as Fujiwara no Tadamichi
 * Jun Kunimura as Fujiwara no Tadazane
 * Shigeki Hosokawa as Fujiwara no Motofusa
 * Hisashi Yoshizawa　as Fujiwara no Narichika
 * Toranosuke Kato as Saikō
 * Toru Nomaguchi as Fujiwara no Korekata (episodes 25, 26, and 28)
 * Toshihiro Yashiba as Fujiwara no Korekata (episode 19)
 * Manabu Hamada as Kajiwara Kagetoki
 * Kō Takasugi as Kazusa Hirotsune
 * Toshiya Nagasawa as Takeda Nobuyoshi
 * Ryūta Mine as Itō Sukechika
 * Seiji Kinoshita as Ōba Kagechika
 * Shun Sugata as Miura Yoshiaki
 * Hajime Tanimoto as Miura Yoshizumi, Yoshiaki's son
 * Kenzō as Sasaki Hideyoshi
 * Moro Moro'oka as Doi Sanehira
 * Masakazu Itō as Chiba Tsunetane
 * Ryū Nakamura as Yamaki Kanetaka
 * Muga Tsukaji as Fujiwara no Nobuyori
 * Masaki Kyomoto as Fujiwara no Hidehira