Atsuhime

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TV Show: Atsuhime
Romaji: Atsuhime
Japanese: 篤姫
Director: Motohiko Sano, Mineyo Sato, Takeshi Okada, Yoshio Watanabe
Writer: Kumiko Tabuchi, Miyao Tomiko (novel)
Network: NHK
Episodes: 50
Release Date: January 6, 2008 - December 14, 2008
Runtime: 20:00 - 20:45
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot

The 47th NHK Taiga Drama is a life story of Princess Atsu, who was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, then called Satsuma, and became the wife of Tokugawa Iesada, the 13th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. She accedes to the highest rank in Ooku, the inner palace of the Edo castle where women related to the reigning shogun resided. Iesada dies soon after their marriage and Atsuhime assumes the name Tenshoin at the age of 23. She exerts herself for the Tokugawa clan and for the nation during the upheaval in the Meiji Restoration, headed by those from Satsuma.

Cast


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Aoi Miyazaki	Kyozo Nagatsuka	Kanako Higuchi	Yoshinori Okada	Keiko Matsuzaka
Atsuhime	Tadatake Shimazu	Oyuki	Tadayuki Shimazu	Ikushima


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Mikijiro Hira	Yuka Itaya	Sumie Sasaki	Kimiko Yo	Hideki Takahashi
Hirosato Zusho	Hirokawa	Kikumoto	Hisahime	Nariakira Shimazu


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Hiroyuki Nagato	Mayo Suzukaze	Yuichiro Yamaguchi	Eita	Rie Tomosaka
Narioki Shimazu	Oyura	Hisamitsu Shimazu	Naogoro Kimotsuki	Ochika

Additional Cast Members:

Kazuhisa Sakai - Tadayuki Shimazu (child)
Yasukiyo Umeno - Magoroku Uchiwa)
Takaaki Enoki - Kaneyoshi Kimotsuki
Ikki Sawamura - Kiyomoto Komatsu
Yukiyoshi Ozawa - Kichinosuke Saigo
Taizo Harada - Shosuke Ohkubo
Koji Matoba - Shinshichi Arima
Kyoko Maya - Fuku Ohkubo
Ryo Katsuji - Manjiro Jon
Masato Sakai - Iesada Tokugawa
Atsuko Takahata - Honjuin
Hiroshi Tamaki
Masei Nakayama - Sanai Hashimoto
Mikako Ichikawa - Oryu
Kenji Takechi - Kihachiro Narahara
Baijaku Nakamura - Ii Naosuke
Mikijiro Hira - Hirosato Zusho
Tomoko Naraoka
Shigeru Saiki - Ieyoshi Tokugawa
Toru Emori - Nariaki Tokugawa
Shinya Owada - Toshiyo Okubo
Takuro Tatsumi - Masayoshi Hotta
Momosuke Mizutani - Shingo Saigo
Kazuyuki Matsuzawa

Video "Atsuhime Opening"

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Awards

"TV Guide Award (Best Drama)" - 2009 Elan D’or Award - February 5, 2009

Comments

Comment #2
Aini Says:
Apr 18 2012 12:12 am

I love this drama. love it...
Comment #1
Tinkiness Says:
Sep 20 2009 10:29 am

Atsuhime is an amazingly well played and artfully detailed series. Every episode keeps me wanting for more.