Takeda Shingen (TV series)

Takeda Shingen (武田信玄) is a 1988 Japanese historical television series. It is the 26th NHK Taiga drama. It is based on the novels by Jirō Nitta of the same title. It had the average viewing rating of 39.7%, with its peak reaching 47.8%. It had the second highest average viewership rating in its history with only a 0.5% difference to the previous year's Taiga drama One-Eyed Dragon Masamune.

Plot
The series focuses on the life of Takeda Shingen during the Sengoku period. The narrator is Takeda Shingen's mother, Ōi-no-kata, who tells the story to the audience. Even when she dies mid-way through the main story, it is her spirit who continues to narrate the events and watch over her son until the very end. It covers from when Shingen exiled his father to his funeral three years after his death.

Production

 * Sword fight arranger - Kunishirō Hayashi

Takeda clan

 * Kiichi Nakai as Takeda Shingen
 * Claude Maki as young Shingen and Takeda Katsuyori
 * Mikijirō Hira as Takeda Nobutora, Shingen's father
 * Ayako Wakao as Lady Ōi, Shingen's mother (series narrator)
 * Misako Konno as Lady Sanjō, Shingen's wife
 * Mayumi Ogawa as Yae
 * Yoko Minamino as Okoko and Koihime
 * Mao Daichi as Satomi
 * Kimiko Ikegami as Eri
 * Takeshi Wakamatsu as Takeda Nobushige
 * Masaru Shinozuka as Takeda Nobukado
 * Shinichi Tsutsumi as Takeda Yoshinobu
 * Nakamura Shichinosuke II as young Yoshinobu
 * Katsuya Kobayashi as Hara Masatoshi
 * Kei Satō as Abe Katsuyoshi
 * Taketoshi Naito as Gishū
 * "Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen"
 * Joe Shishido as Hara Toratane
 * Kiyoshi Kodama as Obu Toramasa
 * Ryōsuke Miki as Baba Nobuharu
 * Kōjirō Hongō as Amari Torayasu
 * Bunta Sugawara as Itagaki Nobukata
 * Hiroaki Murakami as Kōsaka "Danjō" Masanobu
 * Isao Hashizume as Sanada Yukitaka
 * Saburō Shinoda as Yamagata Masakage
 * Toshiyuki Nishida as Yamamoto Kansuke

Uesugi clan

 * Kyōhei Shibata as Uesugi Kenshin, Shingen's rival
 * Ken Utsui as Naoe Kagetsuna
 * Yūsuke Takita as Uesugi Norimasa
 * Tokuma Nishioka as Kitajō Takahiro
 * Hiroshi Katsuno as Ōkuma Tomohide

Imagawa clan

 * Nakamura Kankurō V as Imagawa Yoshimoto
 * Kyōko Kishida as Jukeini
 * Ichirō Zaitsu as Taigen Sessai

Later Hōjō clan

 * Ryōtarō Sugi as Hōjō Ujiyasu
 * Yūichi Aoyama as Hōjō Ujimasa
 * Mai Okamoto as Oume
 * Takao Inoue as Matsuda Norihide

Oda clan

 * Ryo Ishibashi as Oda Nobunaga
 * Yumi Asō as Nōhime
 * Tsuyoshi Ihara as Oda Nobuyuki

Tokugawa clan

 * Nakamura Hashinosuke III as Tokugawa Ieyasu
 * Shinshō Nakamaru as Sakai Tadatsugu

Suwa clan

 * Bandō Yasosuke V as Suwa Yorishige
 * Yorie Yamashita as Nene Goryōnin

Murakami clan

 * Tsunehiko Kamijō as Murakami Yoshikiyo

Others

 * Ichikawa Danzō IX as Ashikaga Yoshiaki, the last shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate