Genroku Ryoran

10 Jan 1999

Japan

50 mins

7.667

3 votes

Drama

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The 38th NHK Taiga Drama is Genroku Ryoran. The "Forty-seven Loyal Samurai" is one of the most enduring and best loved stories of Japan's history. Generations have grown up hearing the stirring tale of Oishi Kuranosuke, chief councillor of the Ako clan who leads his men through suffering and hardship to ultimately avenge their lord after he is unjustly forced to commit harakiri. NHK's 38th Taiga Drama "Genroku Ryoran" is the ambitious remake of this classic epic and boasts a cast that reads like a Who's Who in Japanese entertainment.

松平健
as Irobe Matashiro
宮沢りえ
as Aguri
篠原涼子
as Sadako
阿部寛
as Horibe Yasubei
石坂浩二
as Kira Yoshinaka
東山紀之
as Asano Naganori
村上弘明
as Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu / Yasuakira
萩原健一
as Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
吉田栄作
as Okajima Tadatsugu
柄本明
as Genshiro
夏木マリ
as Tomiko
杉本哲太
as Fuwa Kuzaemon

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