Yae no Sakura

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to navigationJump to search

Yae no Sakura

Promotional poster

Genre Taiga drama

Written by Mutsumi Yamamoto

Starring Haruka Ayase

Hidetoshi Nishijima

Joe Odagiri

Hiroki Hasegawa

Jun Fubuki

Yutaka Matsushige

Kyōko Hasegawa

Tetsuji Tamayama
Gō Ayano
 Shun Oguri

Meisa Kuroki

Kotaro Koizumi

Shido Nakamura

Takumi Saito

Yoshiko Miyazaki

Katsuhisa Namase

Kumiko Akiyoshi

Masaya Kato

Masahiro Takashima

Kōji Kikkawa

Ichikawa Somegorō VII

Izumi Inamori

Takashi Sorimachi

Eiji Okuda

Hiroaki Murakami

Hiroki Matsukata

Toshiyuki Nishida

Narrated by Mitsuko Kusabue

Theme music composer Ryuichi Sakamoto

Composer(s) Nobuyuki Nakajima

Country of origin Japan

Original language(s) Japanese

No. of episodes 50

Production
 Running time 48 x 45 minutes

1 x 75 minutes

1 x 60 minutes

Release

Original network NHK

Original release January 6 –

December 15, 2013

External links

Website

Yae no Sakura (八重の桜 Yae's Sakura) is a 2013 Japanese television series. It is the
52nd NHK taiga drama. The story focuses on Niijima Yae, who is portrayed by Haruka Ayase.[1] Yae
is a strong believer in women's rights and the story follows her journey in Japan, during the time it is
opened up to Western ideas.

Contents

 1Cast
 2Reception
 3References
 4External links

Cast[edit]
 Haruka Ayase as Niijima Yae
o Rio Suzuki as childhood Yae
Her family

 Hiroki Hasegawa as Kawasaki Shonosuke

 Joe Odagiri as Joseph Hardy Neesima
 Hidetoshi Nishijima as Yamamoto Kakuma
 Jun Fubuki as Yamamoto Saku
 Yutaka Matsushige as Yamamoto Gonpachi
 Kyōko Hasegawa as Higuchi Ura
 Mitsuki Tanimura as Oda Tokie
 Masahiro Toda as Tokuzō
Aizu Domain

 Gō Ayano as Matsudaira Katamori

 Izumi Inamori as Matsudaira Teru
 Toshiyuki Nishida as Saigō Tanomo
 Ayame Goriki as Hinata Yuki
 Meisa Kuroki as Nakano Takeko
 Takumi Saito as Jinbo Shuri
 Masane Tsukayama as Jinbo Kuranosuke
 Tetsuji Tamayama as Yamakawa Hiroshi
 Mikako Ichikawa as Yamakawa Futaba
 Ryo Katsuji as Yamakawa Kenjirō
 Kumiko Akiyoshi as Yamakawa En
 Kiko Mizuhara as Ōyama Sutematsu
 Morio Kazama as Hayashi Yasusada
 Hiroyuki Ikeuchi as Kajiwara Heima
 Shido Nakamura as Sagawa Kanbei
 Shingo Yanagisawa as Kayano Gonbei
 Shihori Kanjiya as Fujita Tokio
 Junko Miyashita as Takagi Sumie
Tokugawa shogunate

 Kotaro Koizumi as Tokugawa Yoshinobu

 Takaaki Enoki as Ii Naosuke
Shinsengumi

 Yū Kamio as Kondō Isami

 Jun Murakami as Hijikata Toshizō
 Kenji Furuya as Saitō Hajime
Government of Meiji

 Katsuhisa Namase as Katsu Kaishū

 Mitsuhiro Oikawa as Kido Takayoshi
 Kazuki Kosakai as Iwakura Tomomi
 Satoshi Tokushige as Ōkubo Toshimichi
 Masaya Kato as Itagaki Taisuke
 Takashi Sorimachi as Ōyama Iwao
 Eisuke Sasai as Sanjō Sanetomi
 Toranosuke Katō as Itō Hirobumi
 Manabu Ino as Yamagata Aritomo
Chōshū Domain

 Shun Oguri as Yoshida Shōin

 Takamasa Suga as Kusaka Genzui
 Hitoshi Ozawa as Sera Shūzō
Satsuma Domain
 Koji Kikkawa as Saigō Takamori
 Yoichi Hayashi as Shimazu Nariakira
Others

 Hiroaki Murakami as Matsudaira Yoshinaga

 Eiji Okuda as Sakuma Shōzan
 Goro Ibuki as Tokugawa Nariaki
 Kyūsaku Shimada as Maki Yasuomi
 Hiroki Matsukata as Ōgakiya Seihachi
 Eric Bossick as Carl Wilhelm Heinrich Lehmann
 Mayuko Kawakita as Tsuda Umeko
 Ichikawa Somegorō VII as Emperor Kōmei
 Kenji Masaki as Sakamoto Ryōma

Reception[edit]
In 2014, the series was nominated for the International Emmy Award for best drama series.