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 Shiso 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
- Nakamura Kankurō VI as Shiso Kanakuri
- Rintarō Hisano as child Shiso
- Daichirō Funamoto as teen Shiso
- Sadao Abe as Masaji Tabata
- Sōma Yamatoki as young Masaji (early teens)
- Yūya Hara as young Masaji (late teens and early twenties)
Kanakuri family
- Nakamura Shidō II as Sanetsugu Kanakuri, Shiso's brother
- Tomorowo Taguchi as Nobuhiko Kanakuri, Shiso's father
- Yoshiko Miyazaki as Shie Kanakuri, Shiso's mother
- Hisako Ōkata as Suma Kanakuri, Shiso's grandmother
Ikebe family
- Haruka Ayase as Suya, Shiso's wife
- Riri Harashima as young Suya
- Shinobu Otake as Ikue Ikebe, Shiso's adoptive mother
- Yō Takahashi as Shigeyuki Ikebe, Suya's former husband
Tabata family
- Kumiko Asō as Kikue, Masaji's wife
- Toshie Negishi as Ura Tabata, Masaji's mother
- Haruka Uchimura as Shōkichi Tabata, Masaji's older brother
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
JOC / Japan Amateur Athletic Association
- 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
- Tori Matsuzaka as Yukiaki Iwata
- Yutaka Matsushige as Ryotaro Azuma, the Governor of Tokyo
Japanese members of the IOC
- Masaya Kato as Yōtarō Sugimura
- Shinya Tsukamoto as Michimasa Soejima
The people living in Asakusa
- Takeshi Kitano as Kokontei Shinshō V / the storyteller
- Mirai Moriyama as Kōzō Minobe (young Shinshō) / the storyteller
- Shino Ikenami[4] as Rin Minobe, Shinshō's wife
- Kaho as young Rin
- Ryunosuke Kamiki as Gorin
- Ai Hashimoto as Koume
- Kazunobu Mineta as Sei-san
- Suzuki Matsuo as Tachibanaya Enkyō IV, Shinshō's master
- Tokio Emoto as Manchō
- Rina Kawaei as Chie, Gorin's lover
- Yoshiyoshi Arakawa as Imamatsu
- Kyōko Koizumi as Mitsuko, Shinshō's daughter
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
- Moka Kamishiraishi as Hideko Maehata
- Takumi Saitoh as Katsuo Takaishi
- Takahiro Miura as Kazuo Noda
- Sarutoki Minagawa as Ikkaku Matsuzawa
- Shunsuke Daitō as Yoshiyuki Tsuruta
- Kento Hayashi as Tsutomu Ōyokota
- Ōshirō Maeda as Reizo Koike
- Mai Kiryū as Hatsuho Matsuzawa
- Arisa Sasaki as Kazue Kojima
- Rintarō Ikeda as Chūhei Nambu
Other Politicians
- Lily Franky as Taketora Ogata
- Issey Ogata as Hidejirō Nagata
- Kenichi Hagiwara as Korekiyo Takahashi
- Sansei Shiomi as Tsuyoshi Inukai
- Sei Hiraizumi as Shigenobu Ōkuma, the founder of Waseda University
- Kenta Hamano as Hirobumi Itō
Foreigners
- Nicolas Lumbreras as Pierre de Coubertin
- Didier as Auguste Gérard
- Edvin Endre as Daniel
- Eduardo Breda as Francisco Lázaro
- Gen Hoshino as Kazushige Hirasawa, a commentator
- Tortoise Matsumoto as Sansei Kasai
Journalists
- Mizuki Yamamoto as Honjō
- Kenta Kiritani as Ichirō Kōno
- Sō Yamanaka as Zenmaro Toki
Others
- Hajime Inoue as Sadatsuchi Uchida
- Kenta Satoi as Dr. Haruno, Suya's father
- Hiroki Miyake as Shinsaku Kurosaka (eps. 16–)
- Pierre Taki as Shinsaku Kurosaka (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
- Tasuku Emoto as Masuno, Shima's husband
- Itsuji Itao as Daisaku Murata
- Moemi Katayama as Chii-chan
- Makita Sports as a prisoner
- Hiroko Yakushimaru as Marie
- Lisa Oda as Naomi
Staff
- Music : Otomo Yoshihide
TV schedule
| Shiso Kanakuri Arc | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | Masae Ichiki | March 24, 2019 | 9.3% |
| 13 | "Fukkatsu" (復活) | Tsuyoshi Inoue | March 31, 2019 | 8.5% |
| 14 | "Shinsekai" (新世界) | Tsuyoshi Inoue and Hitoshi Ōne | April 14, 2019 | 9.6% |
| 15 | "Aa Kekkon" (あゝ結婚) | Masae Ichiki | April 21, 2019 | 8.7% |
| 16 | "Berlin no Kabe" (ベルリンの壁) | Hitoshi Ōne | April 28, 2019 | 7.1% |
| 17 | "Itsumo Futaride" (いつも2人で) | Masae Ichiki | May 5, 2019 | 7.7% |
| 18 | "Ai no Yume" (愛の夢) | Kensuke Matsuki | May 12, 2019 | 8.7% |
| 19 | "Hakone Ekiden" (箱根駅伝) | Hitoshi Ōne | May 19, 2019 | 8.7% |
| 20 | "Koi no Katamichi-Kippu" (恋の片道切符) | May 26, 2019 | 8.6% | |
| 21 | "Sakura no Sono" (櫻の園) | Takegorō Nishimura | June 2, 2019 | 8.5% |
| 22 | "Venus no Tanjō" (ヴィーナスの誕生) | Satoshi Hayashi | June 9, 2019 | 6.7% |
| 23 | "Daichi" (大地) | Tsuyoshi Inoue | June 16, 2019 | 6.9% |
| 24 | "Tane maku Hito" (種まく人) | June 23, 2019 | ||
| Masaji Tabata Arc | ||||
| 25 | "Jidai wa Kawaru" (時代は変わる) | June 30, 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.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "1964 Tokyo Olympics the theme of new NHK drama in 2019". 4 April 2017 – via Mainichi Daily News.
- ^ 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