Details
Title: 毛利元就
Title (romaji): Mori Motonari
Genre: Jidaigeki
Episodes: 49 (see notes)
Viewership ratings: Ep1=25.3, High=28.5, Avg=23.4
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast period: 1997-Jan-05 to 1997-Dec-14
Air time: Sunday 20:00
Synopsis
The 36th NHK Taiga Drama is Mori Motonari. This series chronicles the life of Mori Motonari, a warlord of the early 1500s who stood at the vanguard of the Warring States era. All Japanese school textbooks contain the Mitsuya no kyokun, Mori's famous lesson to his three sons that teaches that while one arrow is easily broken, three arrows together cannot be broken. In 1997, 500 years after his birth, NHK dramatizes Motonari's rise from a chief of the region of Aki (now Hiroshima) to a daimyo who rules over ten provinces of the Chugoku region. Motonari was 64 years old and already the patriarch of a powerful dynasty about the time Oda Nobunaga and Takeda Shingen appeared on the scene. And even after his death, the Mori family figured prominently in Japanese history. His grandson Terumoto became a loyal Toyotomi vassal. Defeated at the Battle of Sekigahara, Ieyasu confiscated most of his lands, leaving him only with Suwo and Nagato, later known as Choshu. But 260 years later, the Mori got their ultimate revenge, leading the imperial forces against the Tokugawa in the Meiji Restoration. --KIKU TV
- Mori Motonari/Synopsis ep1-30
- Mori Motonari/Synopsis Eps 31-49
Nakamura Hashinosuke
Kamikawa Takaya
Tomita Yasuko
Matsuzaka Keiko
Kataoka Tsurutaro
Matoba Koji
Enoki Takaaki
Jinnai Takanori
Morita Go
Azuma Chizuru
Nakamura Baijaku
Hosokawa Toshiyuki
Kaga Mariko
Kusakari Masao
Takeshita Keiko
Takashima Masahiro
Ogata Ken
Miyamoto Nobuko
Numata Baku
Shirai Akira
Musaka Naomasa
Natsuyagi Isao
Hotaru Yukijiro
Matsubara Chiaki
Ikeda Yukiko (ep43-49)
Matsukane Yoneko
Taguchi Tomorowo
Production Credits
Original writing: Nagai Michiko (永井路子)
Screenwriter: Uchidate Makiko
Music: Watanabe Toshiyuki
Notes
This renzoku contains 49 episodes. In the United States (specifically KIKU-TV and other licensees of the JN Production subbed work), episode 1 was split into two episodes (1A and 1B), while making episode 2 episode 3, and so on down the line, the ending result appearing to have 50 episodes instead of 49.
