Details
Title: 陽炎の辻
Title (romaji): Kagero no Tsuji
Also known as: Crossing of Heat Haze
Tagline: 居眠り磐音 江戸双紙 / Inemuri Iwane Edo Soshi
Format: Renzoku, across three seasons
Genre: Jidaigeki
Broadcast network: NHK
Theme song: Ai wo Tomenaide ~Always Loving You~ by Niizuma Seiko (新妻聖子)
Season 1
Episodes: 11
Viewership ratings: 11.5
Broadcast period: 2007-Jul-19 to 2007-Oct-11
Air time: Thursday 22:00-22:43
Synopsis
A story about a gifted swordsman who faces with various troubles brought to him with strong sense of justice and genuine sympathy to commoners. Sakazaki Iwane is a ronin who spends idle days in Edo. Until a few months ago, he was a promising son and successor to a powerful family in Bungo. He has came back to Edo, where he lived for a while for swordplay training with his two best friends, after a tragedy in the three's home domain—both of the two friends died, one of them killed by Iwane by command of the domain lord's chief retainer. Iwane left his home for Edo, leaving behind his fiancée, a sister of the friend he killed. Eventually, Iwane detects the conspiracy behind the deaths of the two friends and struggles to reform his domain. --NHK
Cast
Yamamoto Koji as Sakazaki Iwane
Nakagoshi Noriko
Kawamura Yosuke
Harada Natsuki
Uryu Misaki
Kasai Kenji
Watanabe Ikkei
Dan Rei
Komatsu Masao
Takahashi Katsumi
Sato B-saku
Kondo Masaomi
Shioya Shun
Fueki Yuko
Kashiwabara Shuji
Kikuchi Maiko
Odaka Anna
Hiraizumi Sei
Tsurumi Shingo
Ueda Koichi
Inagawa Junji
Miyazaki Masaru (ep7)
Production Credits
Original writing: Saeki Yasuhide (佐伯泰英)
Screenwriter: Bisai Kenichi (尾西兼一)
Director: Nishitani Shinichi (西谷真一)
Music: Sato Naoki
