Details
Title: 大化の改新
Title (romaji): Taika no Kaishin
Also known as: The Taika Reforms
Episodes: 2
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast period: 2005-Jan-03
Synopsis
A drama introduces the well known coup d'etat in the 7th Century Japan followed by the Taika reform which marks the start of the nation by portraying the friendship and betrayal between two young men, Nakatomino Kamatari and Sogano Iruka.
Despite being totally different each other, Kamatari from a small clan in charge of Shinto rituals, and Iruka who is a successor of the man of power, study together as good friends at a private school run by a learned who returned from China. However, their ways separate as Iruka plans to kill his political rival prince, which Kamatari disagrees.
Cast
Okada Junichi as Nakatomino Kamatari
Watabe Atsuro as Sogano Iruka
Kimura Yoshino as Kurumamochino Yoshiko
Yamaguchi Yuichiro as Yamashirono Ooenomiko
Oguri Shun as Nakano Ooenomiko
Ibu Masato as Sogano Ishikawa Maro
Osugi Ren as Nakatomino Kuniko
Fukikoshi Mitsuru as Karuno Miko
Takashima Reiko as Takarano Himemiko
Harada Yoshio as Sogano Emishi
Nakadai Tatsuya
