Idaten (TV series)
| Idaten | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Kankurō Kudō |
| Starring | |
| Narrated by | Takeshi Kitano Mirai Moriyama |
| Theme music composer | Tatsuya Shimono |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language | Japanese |
| No. of episodes | 47 |
| Production | |
| Producers | Kei Kurube Takuya Shimizu |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | NHK |
| Release | January 6, 2019 |
Idaten (いだてん〜東京オリムピック噺〜) is a Japanese television series starring Nakamura Kankurō VI and Sadao Abe. It is the 58th NHK taiga drama.[1][2]It is slated to be broadcast in 2019 as part of the lead up to the 2020 Summer Olympics in which NHK is, under the Japan Consortium, principal co-host broadcaster. This drama will be also the 2nd ever post-war Taiga drama in NHK history and will also mark the 55th anniversary of the 1964 Summer Olympics, which NHK broadcast.
Plot
The drama focuses on the stories of two Japanese Olympians from different times of the 20th century: marathon runnner Shizo Kanakuri, who took part in the 1912 Stockholm Summer Olympics and one of the first Japanese athletes to compete in the Games, and swimming coach Masaji Tabata, known as a founding father of Japanese swimming and was part of the successful efforts to bring the Olympics to Japan.[3]
Cast
Starring
- Meiji era
- Nakamura Kankurō VI as Shizo Kanakuri
- Rintarō Hisano as child Shizo
- Daichirō Funamoto as teen Shizo
- Shōwa era
Kanakuri family
- Haruka Ayase as Suya, Shizo's wife
- Riri Harashima as young Suya
- Nakamura Shidō II as Sanetsugu Kanakuri, Shizo's brother
- Tomorowo Taguchi as Nobuhiko Kanakuri, Shizo's father
- Yoshiko Miyazaki as Shie Kanakuri, Shizo's mother
- Shinobu Otake as Ikue Ikebe, Shizo's foster mother
- Hisako Ōkata as as Suma Kanakuri, Shizo's grandmother
Tabata family
- Toshie Negishi as Ura Tabata, Masaji's mother
Mishima family
- Toma Ikuta as Yahiko Mishima
- Yukiyoshi Ozawa as Yatarō Mishima
- Kayoko Shiraishi as Wakako Mishima, Yahiko and Yatarō's mother
- Hana Sugisaki as Shima
Japanese Olympic Committee / Japan Amateur Athletic Association
- Meiji and Taishō eras
- Kōji Yakusho as Jigorō Kanō, the 1st President of the Japanese Olympic Committee
- Ryō Iwamatsu as Seiichi Kishi, the 2nd President
- Yutaka Takenouchi as Hyozo Omori, the team manager at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics
- Charlotte Kate Fox as Annie Shepley Omori, Hyozo's wife
- Kanji Furutachi as Isao Kani
- Tetta Sugimoto as Dōmei Nagai
- Toshiyuki Nagashima as Chiyosaburō Takeda
- Kazunaga Tsuji as Hisayoshi Kanō
- Shinobu Terajima as Tokuyo Nikaidō
- Shōwa era
- Tori Matsuzaka as Yukiaki Iwata
- Yutaka Matsushige as Ryotaro Azuma, the Governor of Tokyo
The people living in Asakusa
- Meiji era
- Mirai Moriyama as Kōzō Minobe (young Shinshō) / the storyteller
- Kaho as Rin Minobe (née Shimizu)
- Ai Hashimoto as Koume
- Kazunobu Mineta as Sei
- Suzuki Matsuo as Tachibanaya Enkyō IV, Shinshō's master
- Tokio Emoto as Manchō
- Shōwa era
- Takeshi Kitano as Kokontei Shinshō V / the storyteller
- Shino Ikenami[4] as Rin Minobe, Shinshō's wife
- Kyōko Koizumi as Mitsuko, Shinshō's daughter
- Ryunosuke Kamiki as Gorin
- Rina Kawaei as Chie, Gorin's lover
- Yoshiyoshi Arakawa as Imamatsu
Tengu Club
- Shinnosuke Mitsushima as Shinkei Yoshioka
- Koen Kondo as Rinsen Nakazawa
- Sō Takei as Shunrō Oshikawa
Other athletes
- Yuina Kuroshima as Tomie Murata
- Koharu Sugawara as Kinue Hitomi
- Gen Hoshino as Kazushige Hirasawa, a commentator
Foreigners
- Nicolas Lumbreras as Pierre de Coubertin
- Didier as Auguste Gérard
- Edvin Endre as Daniel
- Eduardo Breda as Francisco Lázaro
- Tatiana Petre
Others
- Sei Hiraizumi as Shigenobu Ōkuma, the founder of Waseda University
- Hajime Inoue as Sadatsuchi Uchida
- Kenta Satoi as Dr. Haruno, Suya's father
- Mizuki Yamamoto as Honjō, a journalist
- Hiroki Miyake as Shinsaku Kurokawa (eps. 16–)
- Pierre Taki as Shinsaku Kurokawa (eps. 4–10)
- Kento Nagayama as Genzaburō Noguchi
- Ryo Katsuji as Hidenobu Mikawa
- Bengal as Kinji Tajima
- Akihiro Kakuta (Tokyo 03) as a taxi driver
- Raikō Sakamoto as a katsudō-benshi
- Kang Sang-jung as Mr. Gojō
- Hiroaki Nerio as a man with a mustache
- 201 Ami as Sanpo Toku
- Shiyun Nakamura as Count Maresuke Nogi
- Kenta Hamano as Hirobumi Itō
- Tasuku Emoto as Masuno, Shima's husband
- Itsuji Itao as Daisaku Murata
- Issey Ogata as Hidejirō Nagata
Staff
- Music : Otomo Yoshihide
TV schedule
| Episode | Title | Directed by | Original airdate | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Yoakemae" (夜明け前) | Tsuyoshi Inoue | January 6, 2019 | 15.5% |
| 2 | "Botchan" (坊っちゃん) | January 13, 2019 | 12.0% | |
| 3 | "Bōken Sekai" (冒険世界) | Takegorō Nishimura | January 20, 2019 | 13.2% |
| 4 | "Shōben Kozō" (小便小僧) | Masae Ichiki | January 27, 2019 | 11.6% |
| 5 | "Ame ni mo Makezu" (雨ニモマケズ) | Tsuyoshi Inoue | February 3, 2019 | 10.2% |
| 6 | "Оedo Nihonbashi" (お江戸日本橋) | Takegorō Nishimura | February 10, 2019 | 9.9% |
| 7 | "Okashina Futari" (おかしな二人) | Masae Ichiki | February 17, 2019 | 9.5% |
| 8 | "Teki wa Ikuman" (敵は幾万) | Tsuyoshi Inoue | February 24, 2019 | 9.3% |
| 9 | "Saraba Siberia Tetsudō" (さらばシベリア鉄道) | Hitoshi Ōne | March 3, 2019 | 9.7% |
| 10 | "Manatsu no Yo no Yume" (真夏の夜の夢) | Takegorō Nishimura | March 10, 2019 | 8.7% |
| 11 | "Hyakunen no Kodoku" (百年の孤独) | March 17, 2019 | 8.7% | |
| 12 | "Taiyō ga Ippai" (太陽がいっぱい) | March 24, 2019 | ||
| 13 | "Fukkatsu" (復活) | March 31, 2019 |
See also
References
- ^ "ＮＨＫ大河「いだてん」、異例の海外ロケを敢行". Sanspo. Retrieved November 12, 2018.
- ^ "19年大河ドラマ『いだてん』主演の勘九郎「走りきりたい」 阿部サダヲ「楽しみ」". Oricon. Retrieved November 12, 2018.
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- ^ Shino Ikenami is a granddaughter of Rin Minobe."『いだてん』古今亭志ん生の孫・池波志乃が出演 ビートたけしと夫婦役". Oricon. Retrieved November 12, 2018.
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External links
- Official Site Template:Ja icon(The program website of The Taiga Drama‟ IDATEN” is limited to browsing in Japan only.)
- Idaten at IMDb
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