What Will You Do, Ieyasu?

What Will You Do, Ieyasu? is a Japanese historical drama television series starring Jun Matsumoto as Tokugawa Ieyasu. The series is the 62nd NHK taiga drama.

Starring role

 * Jun Matsumoto as Tokugawa Ieyasu
 * Waku Kawaguchi as Matsudaira Takechiyo (young Ieyasu)

Tokugawa clan

 * Kasumi Arimura as Sena, Ieyasu's first wife
 * Seiko Utsumi as Sena's double
 * Nanako Matsushima as Odai no Kata, Ieyasu's mother
 * Kisuke Iida as Matsudaira Hirotada, Ieyasu's father
 * Kanata Hosoda as Matsudaira Nobuyasu
 * Mahoro Terajima as Takechiyo (young Nobuyasu)
 * Shiori Kubo (Nogizaka46) as Gotoku
 * Natsuki Matsuoka as young Gotoku
 * Ami Touma as Kamehime
 * Honoka Yoshida as young Kamehime
 * Alice Hirose as Lady Oai
 * Yūtarō Iisaku as Saigō Yoshikatsu
 * Win Morisaki as Tokugawa Hidetada
 * Rihito Shigematsu as Chōmaru (young Hidetada)
 * Maiko as Gō
 * Yūka as young Gō
 * Yunho as Takechiyo (young Tokugawa Iemitsu)
 * Aoto Ichimura as Fukumatsu (young Matsudaira Tadayoshi)
 * Takumi Kizu as Yūki Hideyasu
 * Ryūsei Iwata as Ogii (young Hideyasu)
 * Yutaka Matsushige as Ishikawa Kazumasa
 * Tae Kimura as Nabe, Kazumasa's wife
 * The Four Heavenly Kings of the Tokugawa
 * Nao Ōmori as Sakai Tadatsugu
 * Yuki Yamada as Honda Tadakatsu
 * Yosuke Sugino as Sakakibara Yasumasa
 * Rihito Itagaki as Ii Naomasa
 * Kenichi Matsuyama as Honda Masanobu
 * Yūki Inoue as Honda Masazumi
 * Issey Ogata as Torii Tadayoshi
 * Takuma Oto'o as Torii Mototada
 * Kotone Furukawa as Mochizuki Chiyo, a Kunoichi and a retainer of Takeda Clan, who later became Mototada's second wife
 * Shinya Kote as Ōkubo Tadayo
 * Akihito Yoshiie as Ōkubo Tadamasu
 * Dai Okabe (Hanako) as Hiraiwa Chikayoshi
 * Takayuki Yamada as Hattori Hanzō
 * Masahiro Kōmoto as Natsume Yoshinobu, a.k.a. Natsume Hirotsugu
 * Kazuki Namioka as Honda Tadazane
 * Subaru Kimura as Watanabe Moritsuna
 * Tetsuya Chiba as Ōnezumi
 * Marika Matsumoto as Onna-ōnezumi
 * Kazuo Kawabata as Anaguma
 * Tsubaki Nekoze as Toyo
 * Kana Kita as Oyō
 * Asahi Seino as Ofū
 * Shuri Nakamura as Miyo
 * Rena Matsui as Oman
 * Katsuya Maiguma as Ōoka Yashirō
 * Kenta Nitta as Ban Yoshichirō
 * Takato Yonemoto as Yamada Hachizō
 * Wakana Matsumoto as Lady Acha
 * Tatsumasa Murasame as William Adams, a.k.a. Miura Anjin
 * Takeshi Nadagi as Ina Tadatsugu
 * Ryōsei Tayama as Konchi'in Sūden
 * Tetsuo (Waraimeshi) as Hayashi Razan
 * Maiko Itō
 * Shinobu Terajima as Lady Kasuga/narrator
 * Shun Oguri as Nankōbō Tenkai

Imagawa clan

 * Mansai Nomura as Imagawa Yoshimoto. He was like a father to Ieyasu.
 * Junpei Mizobata as Imagawa Ujizane
 * Kuon Kazui as Tatsuō-maru (young Ujizane)
 * Mirai Shida as Ito
 * Atsuro Watabe as Sekiguchi Ujizumi
 * Miki Maya as Tomoe
 * Hana Toyoshima as Tane
 * Nagisa Sekimizu as Otazu
 * Gōta Watabe as Iio Tsuratatsu
 * Tōru Nomaguchi as Udono Nagateru
 * Uta Yorikawa as Udono Ujinaga
 * Sera Ishida as Udono Ujitsugu
 * Hiroyuki Amano as Yamada Shin'emon
 * Kenichi Yajima as Kira Yoshiakira
 * Miou Tanaka as Okabe Motonobu

Oda clan

 * Junichi Okada as Oda Nobunaga
 * Kira Miura as young Nobunaga
 * Hiroshi Fujioka as Oda Nobuhide, Nobunaga's father
 * Yoshi Sakou as Akechi Mitsuhide
 * Mitsuo Yoshihara as Shibata Katsuie
 * Tatekawa Danshun as Sakuma Nobumori
 * Satoshi Tokushige as Ikeda Tsuneoki
 * Kenta Hamano as Oda Nobukatsu
 * Tomohiro Yoshida as Oda Nobutaka
 * Akira Fukuzawa as Niwa Nagahide
 * Yu Shirota as Mori Nagayoshi
 * Riku Ōnishi as Mori Ran, a.k.a. Mori Ranmaru
 * Nozomi Makino as Hirate Masahide
 * Aoi Hamada as Sanbōshi

Toyotomi clan

 * Tsuyoshi Muro as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
 * Emi Wakui as Nene
 * Keiko Kitagawa as Yodo-dono and her mother Oichi
 * Tamaki Shiratori as Chacha (young Yodo-dono)
 * Yūwa Kamimura as young Oichi
 * Ryūto Sakuma (HiHi Jets) as Toyotomi Hideyori
 * Nanoka Hara as Senhime
 * Atsuko Takahata as Naka
 * Ryuta Sato as Toyotomi Hidenaga
 * Maho Yamada as Asahi
 * Nakamura Shichinosuke II as Ishida Mitsunari
 * Yasushi Fuchikami as Katō Kiyomasa
 * Motoki Fukami as Fukushima Masanori
 * Shugo Oshinari as Ōtani Yoshitsugu
 * Mansaku Ikeuchi as Konishi Yukinaga
 * Tsutomu Takahashi as Shima Sakon
 * Shinnosuke Abe as Kuroda Nagamasa
 * Kozo Takeda as Hachisuka Iemasa
 * Rin Amikawa as Tōdō Takatora
 * Shin'ya Yamamaru as Yamauchi Kazutoyo
 * Takayuki Hamatsu as Asano Nagamasa
 * Seminosuke Murasugi as Maeda Gen'i
 * Yōhei Kumabe as Mashita Nagamori
 * Ikuma Nagatomo as Natsuka Masaie
 * Denden as Saishō Jōtai
 * Masato Yamashita as Toyotomi Hidetsugu
 * Yoshito Kobashigawa as Hori Hidemasa
 * Riku Kashima as Kobayakawa Hideaki
 * Jun'ya Kawashima as Katagiri Katsumoto
 * Tetsuji Tamayama as Ōno Harunaga
 * Hacizō Hino as Chōsokabe Morichika
 * Takuma Sugawara as Mōri Yoshimasa, a.k.a. Mōri Katsunaga
 * Ryūhei Higashiyama as Ōtani Yoshikatsu
 * Ken Kurahara as Gotō Matabei
 * Hisato Kojima as Akashi Teruzumi
 * Shinobu Otake as Ōkurakyō no Tsubone

Council of Five Elders (Go-Tairō)

 * Shin Takuma as Maeda Toshiie
 * Mitsuru Fukikoshi as Mōri Terumoto
 * Kanji Tsuda as Uesugi Kagekatsu
 * Shuntaro Yanagi as Ukita Hideie

Takeda clan

 * Hiroshi Abe as Takeda Shingen
 * Gordon Maeda as Takeda Katsuyori
 * Satoshi Hashimoto as Yamagata Masakage
 * Seiichi Tanabe as Anayama Baisetsu

Sanada clan

 * Kōichi Satō as Sanada Masayuki
 * Kaito Yoshimura as Sanada Nobuyuki
 * Yui Narumi as Ina, Nobuyuki's wife and Honda Tadakatsu's daughter
 * Wataru Hyuga as Sanada Nobushige, later known as Sanada "Saemonosuke" Yukimura

Others

 * Kōtarō Satomi as Tōyo-shōnin
 * Ichikawa Udanji III as Kūsei-shōnin
 * Arata Furuta as Ashikaga Yoshiaki, the final shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate
 * Yūsuke Ōnuki as Azai Nagamasa
 * Anne Suzuki as Hatsu
 * Rin Furukawa as young Hatsu
 * Aoi Itō as Azuki
 * Susumu Terajima as Mizuno Nobumoto
 * Lily Franky as Hisamatsu Toshikatsu
 * Kento Nagao (Naniwa Danshi) as Hisamatsu Katsutoshi
 * Akihiro Kakuta (Tokyo 03) as Matsudaira Masahisa
 * Nakamura Kankurō VI as Chaya Shirōjirō Kiyonobu and his son Kiyotada
 * Jin Shirasu as Okudaira Nobumasa
 * Taiiku Okazaki as Torii Suneemon
 * Manami Igashira as Otama
 * Ai Tenshō as Ofū
 * Amane Tenshō as Orin
 * Rie Shibata as an old lady selling dumplings.
 * Kenji Yamagami as Tsuda Sōgyū
 * Kazu Murakami as Matsui Yūkan
 * Kyusaku Shimada as Momochi Tanba
 * Kitarō as Tarao Mitsutoshi
 * Arisa Nakajima as Ii Hiyo
 * Taro Suruga as Hōjō Ujimasa
 * Jun Nishiyama as Hōjō Ujinao
 * Takahiro as Naoe Kanetsugu
 * Tsuyoshi Hayakawa as Maeda Toshinaga
 * Tomonori Mizuno as Hijikata Katsuhisa
 * Kenji Inoue as Kikkawa Hiroie

Reception
The show has the second worst viewerships rating Taiga drama since NHK launched its first historical drama show. The reason was stated that although younger generation of NHK drama viewers increased, the older generations received the show negatively due to the portrayal of Ieyasu being timid and the sympathetic portrayal of Lady Tsukiyama, contrary to the traditional image of both characters since Edo period. Furthermore, this show has garnered mixed views from history academics since it depicted many historical inaccuracies..