Details
Title: 坂の上の雲
Title (romaji): Saka no Ue no Kumo
Also known as: Clouds Over the Hill
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Period drama
Episodes: 13 (90 mins. each)
Viewership rating: 17.5% (Part 1), 13.5% (Part 2), 11.6% (Part 3)
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast period:
2009-Nov-29 to 2009-Dec-27 (ep 01-05)
2010-Dec-05 to 2010-Dec-26 (ep 06-09)
2011-Dec-04 to 2011-Dec-25 (ep 10-13)
Air time: Sunday 20:00
Synopsis
The story takes place during Japan's tumultuous 19th century Meiji Period and is told through the military officers and brothers, Akiyama Yoshifuru and Akiyama Saneyuki and the poet Masaoka Shiki who used their ingenuity to fight an uphill battle during the Russo-Japanese War.
Cast
Motoki Masahiro as Akiyama Saneyuki
Kobayashi Ren
Abe Hiroshi as Akiyama Yoshifuru
Sometani Shota
Tanaka Shohei (田中祥平)
Kagawa Teruyuki as Masaoka Shiki
Sasano Takato (ささの貴斗)
Kanno Miho as Masaoka Ritsu
Yoshida Riko
Ozawa Yukiyoshi as Natsume Soseki
Ito Shiro as Akiyama Hisayuki
Takeshita Keiko as Akiyama Tadashi
Ishihara Satomi as Akiyama Sueko
Matsu Takako as Sakuma Tami
Kunimura Jun as Kawakami Soroku
Osugi Ren as Mutsu Munemitsu
Matoba Koji as Nagaoka Gaishi
Tsutsumi Daijiro (堤大二郎) as Iguchi Shogo
Nishida Toshiyuki as Takahashi Korekiyo
Takahashi Hideki as Kodama Gentaro
Harada Mieko as Masaoka Yae
Takenaka Naoto as Komura Jutaro
Enoki Takaaki as Mori Ogai
Ohkura Noriyoshi (大藏教義) as Kawahigashi Hekigoto
Sano Shiro as Kuga Katsunan
Oki Satoshi (大木聡) as Hitomi Zengoro
Morikubo Taiga (森久保大河) as Zenshiro
Kamio Yu (神尾佑) as Kumagai Naoaki
Kato Go (加藤剛) as Ito Hirobumi
Fujimoto Takahiro (藤本隆宏) as Takeo Hirose
Marina Alexandrova (マリーナ・アレクサンドラ) as Ariadna
Fedorov (ヒョードロフ) as Nicholas II of Russia
Joe Bunrin (ジョ・ブンリン) as Ding Ruchang
Watari Tetsuya as Togo Heihachiro
Miyauchi Atsushi (宮内敦士) as Fujii Shigeta
Kataoka Tsurutaro as Yashiro Rokuro
Shinjitsu Ichiro (真実一路) as Ohara Kanzan
Kikuchi Masayuki (菊地真之)
Hinokio Kenta (檜尾健太)
Production Credits
Original writing: Shiba Ryotaro (司馬遼太郎) Saka no Ue no Kumo (nonfiction novel)
Screenwriter: Nozawa Hisashi, Shibata Takeshi (柴田岳志), Sato Mikio (佐藤幹夫)
Script supervisors: Ikehata Shunsaku (池端俊策), Okazaki Sakae (岡崎栄)
Chief producers: Nishimura Yoshiki (西村与志木), Kan Yasuhiro (菅康弘), Fujisawa Koichi (藤澤浩一)
Director: Shibata Takeshi (柴田岳志), Sato Mikio (佐藤幹夫)
Saka no Ue no Kumo
