Kunitori Monogatari

Kunitori Monogatari
Genre	Taiga drama
Written by	Yasuko Ohno
Starring	Mikijirō Hira Junko Ikeuchi Keiko Matsuzaka Shigeru Tsuyuguchi Ryūtarō Ōtomo Juzo Itami Shôhei Hino Joe Shishido Yoko Yamamoto Minoru Chiaki Muga Takewaki Ryōtarō Sugi Chieko Matsubara Tōru Emori Kō Nishimura Goro Ibuki Tappie Shimokawa Ryūzō Hayashi Masaomi Kondō Hideki Takahashi
Opening theme	NHK Symphony Orchestra
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of episodes	51
Production
Running time	45 minutes
Original release
Network	NHK
Release	January 1973 (1973-01) – December 1973 (1973-12)

Kunitori Monogatari (国盗り物語) is a 1973 Japanese television series. It is the eleventh NHK taiga drama.

Plot

The series is set in the Sengoku period. Based on Ryōtarō Shiba`s novel of the same name.

The story chronicles the lives of Dosan Saito and Nobunaga Oda.

Production

Production Credits

• Original story – Ryōtarō Shiba
• Music – Hikaru Hayashi
• Sword fight arranger - Kunishirō Hayashi

Cast

Starring role

• Mikijirō Hira as Saitō Dōsan
• Hideki Takahashi as Oda Nobunaga

Saitō clan

• Yoshiko Mita as Miyoshino
• Keiko Matsuzaka as Nōhime
• Gō Wakabayashi as Saitō Yoshitatsu
• Gorō Ōishi as Saitō Tatsuoki

Oda clan

• Minoru Chiaki as Oda Nobuhide
• Yōko Minamikaze as Dota Gozen
• Chieko Matsubara as Oichi
• Jun Tazaki as Hirate Masahide
• Joe Shishido as Shibata Katsuie
• Yūki Meguro as Maeda Toshiie

Akechi clan

• Masaomi Kondō as Akechi Mitsuhide
• Ryoko Nakano as Mitsuhide's wife
• Hiroko Hayashi as Tama, Mitsuhide's daughter
• Akira Kume as Akechi Mitsuyasu
• Seiichiro Kameishi as Saitō Toshimitsu

Hashiba clan

• Shôhei Hino as Hashiba Hideyoshi
• Kiwako Taichi as Nene
• Goichi Yamada as Hachisuka Koroku
• Masakane Yonekura as Takenaka Hanbei
• Taizō Sayama as Sakichi

Kuroda clan

• Tōru Emori as Kuroda Kanbei
• Iroha as Shōjumaru
• Sumio Takatsu as Mori Tahei
• Hiroshi Iwashita as Kuriyama Zensuke

Tokugawa clan

• Akira Terao as Tokugawa Ieyasu
• Jō Kurashima as Honda Tadakatsu

Azai clan

• Ryōtarō Sugi as Azai Nagamasa
• Shoko Nakazawa as Chacha
• Rieko Sugai as Hatsu

Toki clan

• Ryūnosuke Kaneda as Toki Yorinari
• Noboru Nakaya as Toki Yoritake, Yorinari's brother

Ashikaga shogunate

• Muga Takewaki as Ashikaga Yoshiteru
• Juzo Itami as Ashikaga Yoshiaki
• Goro Ibuki as Hosokawa Fujitaka
• Nobuyuki Ishida as Hosokawa Tadaoki

Others

• Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as Iga Ninja: Tsuzura Juzo
• Ryūtarō Ōtomo as Takeda Shingen
• Ritsu Ishiyama as Takeda Katsuyori, Shingen's heir
• Yoshiaki Hanayagi as Imagawa Yoshimoto
• Ryūzō Hayashi as Suzuki Magoichi
• Takahiko Tōno as Yamauchi Kazutoyo
• Fumie Kashiyama as Chiyo, Kazutoyo's wife
• Akira Nagoya as Gonzō Kani

External links

• NHK,Kunitori Monogatari official cite