Tokugawa Ieyasu (TV series)

Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川 家康) is a 1983 Japanese television series. It is the 21st NHK taiga drama. The drama is based on the novel of the same name by Sōhachi Yamaoka.

Plot
The work is set during the Sengoku period going into the early Edo period.

The story chronicles the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu from before his birth until his death.

Production
Production Credits
 * Original – Sōhachi Yamaoka
 * Music – Isao Tomita
 * Narrator – Naomitsu Tateno
 * Historical research – Keizō Suzuki
 * Sword fight arranger - Kunishirō Hayashi

Ieyasu
Generally, due to the image of Tokugawa Ieyasu being petite and chubby, casting proved to be challenging. Before long, within the production team, the desire to create a new image of Ieyasu grew stronger, and the tall Sakae Takita was chosen for the role.

Hideyoshi
Due to the strong desire of Mieko Osanai, who is also a scriptwriter for Kinpachi-sensei, Tetsuya Takeda played the role of Hideyoshi. He was mentioned as one of the leading candidates for the role of Hideyoshi in the 1981 NHK Taiga drama Onna Taikōki as well.

Nobunaga
Initially, the role of Nobunaga was offered to popular singer and actor Kenji Sawada. However, he was too busy, and scheduling proved to be difficult. Eventually, just one week before the casting announcement, it was decided that he was unable to participate. NHK gave up on casting a big-name actor and instead, at the time still relatively unknown, chose Koji Yakusho for the role. From there, he quickly rose to fame and became a popular actor.

Starring role

 * Sakae Takita as Tokugawa Ieyasu (episodes 7-50)
 * Yoshitaka Kase as child Ieyasu (episodes 3-5)
 * Yōji Matsuda as teen Ieyasu (episode 6)

Tokugawa clan

 * Shinobu Otake as Odai no Kata - Ieyasu's mother
 * Masaomi Kondō as Matsudaira Hirotada - Ieyasu's father
 * Kaoru Yachigusa as Keyōin - Ieyasu's grandmother
 * Kimiko Ikegami as Lady Tsukiyama - Ieyasu's wife
 * Hiroshi Katsuno as Tokugawa Hidetada - Ieyasu's third son
 * Hiroyuki Nagato as Honda Sakuzaemon
 * Shinjirō Ehara as Ishikawa Kazumasa
 * Taketoshi Naito as Honda Masanobu
 * Yosuke Natsuki as Yagyū Munenori
 * Hirotarō Honda as Honda Masazumi
 * Sen Yamamoto as Itakura Katsushige
 * Seiji Miyaguchi as Torii Tadayoshi
 * Sei Hiraizumi as Ii Naomasa
 * Kōsuke Toyohara as Ii Naomasa (young)
 * Katsumasa Uchida as Sakakibara Yasumasa
 * Masuyo Iwamoto as Asahi-hime - Ieyasu's second wife
 * Keiko Takeshita as Lady Saigō - Ieyasu's concubine
 * Ken Tanaka as Matsudaira Tadateru - Ieyasu's sixth son
 * Masahiko Tsugawa as Ōkubo Nagayasu
 * Junkichi Orimoto as Ōkubo Tadayo
 * Hideyuki Hori as Yūki Hideyasu - Ieyasu's second son
 * Jouji Nakata as Ōkubo Tadakazu

Oda clan

 * Kōji Yakusho as Oda Nobunaga
 * Takao Itō as Oda Nobuhide
 * Mariko Fuji as Nōhime
 * Minori Terada as Akechi Mitsuhide
 * Rokko Toura as Hirate Masahide

Toyotomi clan

 * Tetsuya Takeda as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
 * Kazuko Yoshiyuki as Nene - Hideyoshi's wife
 * Mitsue Suzuki as Ōmandokoro - Hideyoshi's mother
 * Masako Natsume as Yodo-dono - Hideyoshi's concubine
 * Gō Rijū as Toyotomi Hideyori - Hideyoshi's son
 * Mariko Ishihara as Senhime - Hideyori's wife
 * Takeshi Kaga as Ishida Mitsunari
 * Yūsuke Kawazu as Shima Sakon
 * Akira Kume as Katagiri Katsumoto
 * Yasunori Irikawa as Kuroda Kanbei
 * Junpei Morita as Asano Yoshinaga
 * Council of Five Elders
 * Tetsurō Sagawa as Maeda Toshiie
 * Shinsuke Mikimoto as Mōri Terumoto
 * Tōru Yokoi as Uesugi Kagekatsu
 * Mitsuo Hamada as Ukita Hideie

Imagawa clan

 * Mikio Narita as Imagawa Yoshimoto
 * Yoichi Hayashi as Imagawa Ujizane
 * Keiju Kobayashi as Sessai Choro, Ieyasu's master

Takeda clan

 * Kei Satō as Takeda Shingen
 * Shinji Tōdō as Takeda Katsuyori
 * Shōbun Inoue as Yamagata Masakage
 * Takeo Namai as Anayama Nobukimi

Others

 * Gō Wakabayashi as Sanada Yukimura
 * Goro Ibuki as Katō Kiyomasa
 * Katsuhiko Watabiki as Fukushima Masanori
 * Hiroshi Arikawa as Ōtani Yoshitsugu
 * Jun Tazaki as Shimazu Yoshihiro
 * Onoe Tatsunosuke I as Date Masamune
 * Kōji Ishizaka as Naya Shōan (fictional character)
 * Misako Konno as Kinomi (fictional character)
 * Gorō Mutsumi as Naoe Kanetsugu
 * Masami Horiuchi as Kobayakawa Hideaki
 * Yūsuke Takita as Ankokuji Ekei
 * Raita Ryū as Tenkai
 * Jin Nakayama as Chaya Shirōjirō Kiyonobu
 * Daisaku Shinohara as Ashikaga Yoshiaki, the final shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate