Fūrin Kazan (Taiga drama)

Fūrin Kazan (風林火山^?) was the 46th NHK Taiga drama beginning on January 7, 2007. It was aired throughout 2007.

The four characters from left to right are wind, woods, fire, and mountain. The title is a reference to the war banner used by Takeda Shingen, which in turn was taken from Sun Tzu's The Art of War. It means "Swift as the Wind, Silent as a Forest, Fierce as Fire and Immovable as a Mountain."

Story

Like many of the previous Taiga dramas, Fūrin Kazan deals with the Sengoku period. Based on Yasushi Inoue's novel by the same title, it depicts the life of Yamamoto Kansuke who is known as one of Takeda Shingen's renowned strategists.

Staff

• Original : Yasushi Inoue
• Screenwriter : Sumio Ōmori
• Music : Akira Senju
• Titling : Kōji Kakinuma
• Narrator : Sachiko Kagami
• Historical research : Shunroku Shibatsuji
• Architectural research : Sei Hirai
• Clothing research : Kiyoko Koizumi
• Production coordinator : Hisaaki Wakaizumi
• Director : Kazuhiko Shimizu

Starring

Yamamoto family

• Yamamoto Kansuke: Masaaki Uchino
• Mitsu: Shihori Kanjiya
• Ritsu: Aki Maeda

Kuzukasa village

• Kawaramura Denbei: Yoshiki Arizono
• Hazuki: Juri Manase
• Kuzukasa Takichi: Jiyuu Arima
• Okuma: Aoi Asada
• Yazaki Heizō:Ryuta Satō
• Hisa: Asami Mizukawa

Takeda family

• Takeda Shingen: Ichikawa Kamejirō
• Princess Yū: Shibamoto Yuki
• Lady Sanjō: Ikewaki Chizuru
• Princess Ogoto: Konno Mahiru
• Takeda Nobutora: Nakadai Tatsuya
• Lady Ooi: Fubuki Jun
• Takeda Nobushige: Kashiwa Noritoshi
• Takeda Nobukado: Matsuo Toshinobu
• Nene: Sakurai Sachiko
• Takeda Yoshinobu: Ryo Kimura
• Suwa Katsuyori: Ikematsu Sōsuke

Takeda Army

• Itagaki Nobukata: Sonny Chiba
• Amari Torayasu: Ryu Raita
• Obu Toramasa: Akio Kaneda
• Morozumi Torasada: Katō Takeshi
• Oyamada Nobuari: Tanabe Seiichi
• Baba Nobuharu: Takahashi Kazuya
• Hara Toratane: Shishido Kai
• Komai Masatake: Takahashi Issei
• Kosaka Masanobu: Tanaka Kōtarō
• Yamagata Masakage: Maekawa Yasuyuki
• Akiyama Nobutomo: Ichinose Hidekazu
• Sanada Yukitaka: Sasaki Kuranosuke
• Aiki Ichibe: Kondō Yoshimasa
• Akabe Shimotsuke: Susumu Terajima
• Shinome: Shimizu Misa
• Princess Miru: Yōko Maki
• Shima: Omori Akemi
• Hagino: Asada Miyoko
• kinu: Ezawa Moeko

Uesugi

• Uesugi Kenshin: Gackt
• Usami Sadamitsu: Ogata ken
• Naoe Sanetsuna: Nishioka Tokuma
• Kakizaki Kageie: Kaneda Kenichi
• Ōkuma Tomohide: Ōhashi Gorō
• Momo: Nishida Naomi
• Nami: Urabe Fusako
• Uesugi Norimasa: Ichikawa Sadanji
• Nagano Narimasa: Koichi Mantarō

Imagawa

• Imagawa Yoshimoto: Tanihara Shōsuke
• Jyukeini: Hujimura Shiho
• Taigen Sessai: Ibu Masatō

Hōjō

• Hōjō Ujiyasu: Matsui Makoto
• Hōjō Ujitsuna: Shinagawa　Tōru
• Hōjō Ujimasa: Saotome Taichi
• Shimizu Yoshimasa: Yokouchi Tadashi

Other Shinano's Daimyō

• Murakami Yoshikiyo: Nagashima Toshiyuki
• Suwa Yorishige: Kohinata Fumiyo
• Ogasawara Nagatoki: Imai Akihiko
• Takatō Yoritsugu: Uesugi Shōzō

Others

• Aoki Daizen: Shihodō Wataru
• Ofuku: Midori Mako

Soundtrack and books

Soundtrack

• Fūrin Kazan (EMI Music Japan)
• Fūrin Kazan, last part (EMI Music Japan)

Books

Official guide

• NHK Taiga drama story Fūrin Kazan first part ISBN 978-4-14-923345-1(December 20, 2006)
• NHK Taiga drama story Fūrin Kazan last part ISBN 978-4-14-923346-8(June 25, 2007)
• NHK Taiga drama, Historical handbook, Fūrin Kazan ISBN 978-4-14-910617-5(December 2006)

Novel

• NHK Taiga drama 1, volume of wind ISBN 978-4-14-005509-0(November 2006)
• NHK Taiga drama 2, volume of forest ISBN 978-4-14-005510-6(March 2007)
• NHK Taiga drama 3, volume of fire ISBN 978-4-14-005511-3(June 2007)
• NHK Taiga drama 4, volume of mountain ISBN 978-4-14-005512-0(September 2007)

External links

• Official NHK Furin Kazan Taiga Drama Webpage
• Fūrin Kazan (Taiga drama) at the Internet Movie Database

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