Details
Title: 白虎隊 （びゃっこたい）
Title (romaji): Byakkotai
Format: Tanpatsu, in two parts
Genre: Jidaigeki
Viewership ratings: 17.4 (ep1), 17.1 (ep2)
Broadcast network: TV Asahi
Broadcast period: 2007-Jan-06 and 2007-Jan-07
Air time: 21:00
Theme song: You Raise Me Up by Celtic Woman
Related shows: Byakkotai 1986
Synopsis
A re-make of the 1986 hit, which scored 80-percent in the Aizu district of Fukushima prefecture.
"Byakkotai" seems to be a story by which the content of the drama visits Byakkotai Memorial Hall by a modern young person who is the descendant of a Byakkotai samurai, and traces the history of the tragedy of the Byakkotai in the force organized by about 340 boys of 16 years old and 17 years old at Boshin War (Aizu war). Yamashita performs two roles (a Byakkotai samurai in the old days and the descendant, Shintaro Sakai).
Cast
Byakkotai Samurai
Yamashita Tomohisa as Sakai Mineji and Sakai Shintaro
Tanaka Koki as Shinoda Gisaburo and Shinoda Yusuke
Fujigaya Taisuke as Ito Matahachi
Saito Shota as Tsuda Sutezo
Tomita Sho as Nishikawa Katsutaro
Sakimoto Hiromi as Iinuma Sadakichi
Tsujimoto Yuki (辻本祐樹) as Nagase Yuji
Hashizume Ryo as Ishida Wasuke
Tochihara Rakuto
Kujirai Kousuke (鯨井康介) as Adachi Tozaburo
Kotani Yukihiro (小谷幸弘)
Tagana Masaya (多賀名将也) as Ibuka Motaro
Hanaya Mitsunori (花谷充規)
Kouno Hiroki as Shintaro Ikegami
Kato Takashi (加藤崇)
Otani Sho (大谷翔)
Gonda Yuichiro (権田裕一郎)
Fukuda Yusuke (福田雄介)
Ueyama Manabu (植山学)
Aoyama Masafumi (青山雅史)
Tomihira Kazuma (富平和馬)
Ezaki Oe (江嵜大兄)
Yoshitake Shuhei (吉武周平)
Ishiguro Hideo
Yamada Akira (山田晃)
Saito Rikimaru (齋藤力丸)
Kawanishi Hiroshi (川西裕士)
Other Characters
Yakushimaru Hiroko as Sakai Shige (Mineji's mother)
Nogiwa Yoko as Sakai Mon (Mineji's grandmother)
Takashima Masanobu as Sakai Yasuemon (Mineji's father)
Ito Shiro as Sakai Mineo (Shintaro's grandfather)
Kuroki Meisa as Asai Sayoko
Ito Kazue as Asai Sumie (Sayoko's mother)
Matsushige Yutaka as Yamamoto Kakuma
Masu Takeshi as Sugiyama Eitaro
Kikawada Masaya as Sakai Takie (Mineji's brother)
Matsuo Toshinobu as Yamakawa Hiroshi
Tsutsui Mariko as Tsuda Suguko (Tsuda Sutezo's mother)
Iida Kisuke
Yamada Meikyo
Takuma Takayuki
Hirooka Yuriko
Nishihara Aki
Kanno Rio
Hitomi Sanae (人見早苗)
Kobayashi Ken
Matoba Koji
Nakagoshi Noriko as Yamamoto Yaeko
Sugata Shun (菅田俊)
Ida Kunihiko
Namiki Shiro
Sonoi Koji (園井光司)
Okayama Hajime
Watari Hiroshi (渡洋史)
Sakaki Hideo (榊英雄)
Sakai Toshiya
Enjoji Aya
Ishimaru Kenjiro
Ishikura Saburo
Bengal
Kinoshita Hoka
Musaka Naomasa
Watanabe Ikkei
Kataoka Tsurutaro
Wakamura Mayumi as Shinoda Shinko (Gisaburo's mother)
Wakui Emi
Asano Yuko
Kobayashi Nenji as Saigou Tanomo
Higashiyama Noriyuki as Matsudaira Katamori
Production Credits
Screenwriter: Uchidate Makiko
Chief producer: Igarashi Fumio
Producers: Uchiyama Satoko (内山聖子), Tezuka Osamu (手塚治), Maruyama Shinya (丸山真哉)
Director: Hashimoto Hajime (橋本一)
Music: Oshima Michiru
