Details
Title: 信長
Title (romaji): Nobunaga
Tagline: King of Zipangu
Genre: Taiga drama, renzoku drama
Episodes: 49
Viewership: Ep1=25.4, High=33.0, Avg=24.6
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast period: 1992-Jan-05 through 1992-Dec-13
Air time: Sunday at 20:00
Synopsis
The 30th NHK Taiga Drama is Nobunaga: King of Zipangu. On March 23, 1585, Japanese Christian envoys visited Pope Gregory XIII at the Papal Court in Rome, Italy. The drama begins 45 years earlier - in 1540 outside Lisbon, Portugal.
Cast
Ogata Naoto as Oda Nobunaga
Kikuchi Momoko as Kicho
Matoba Koji as Ikeda Tsuneoki
Nitani Hideaki as Hirade Masahide
Shinoda Saburo as Inaba Yoshimichi
Tanaka Ken as Sakuma Nobumori
Hongo Kojiro as Sakuma Morishige
Suzuki Mizuho as Sakai Daizen
Frank Neil as Louis Froez
Hayashi Ryuzo as Oda Nobuhide
Takahashi Keiko as Rui
Funakoshi Eiji as Oda Nobusada
Ashida Shinsuke as Saito Dosan
Go Hiromi
Takagi Miho as Jino
Wakamura Mayumi as Nabe
Utsui Ken as Hayashi Michikatsu
Hira Mikijiro as Kano Zuiten
Inagawa Junji
Michael Tomioka
Yamamoto Koji
Fuke Norimasa
Owada Shinya
Production Credits
Original story & screenplay: Tamukai Seiken (田向正健)
Producer: Shima Keiji, Yagi Masaji
Director: Shigemitsu Yukihiko
Music: Mori Kurodo (毛利蔵人)
