Takeda Shingen (武田信玄) is a 1988 Japanese historical television series. It is the 26th NHK Taiga drama. It is based on the novels by Jirō Nitta of the same title. It had the average viewing rating of 39.7%, with its peak reaching 47.8%. It had the second highest average viewership rating in its history with only a 0.5% difference to the previous year's Taiga drama One-Eyed Dragon Masamune.
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Plot
The series focuses on the life of Takeda Shingen during the Sengoku period. The narrator is Takeda Shingen's mother, Ōi-no-kata, who tells the story to the audience. Even when she dies mid-way through the main story, it is her spirit who continues to narrate the events and watch over her son until the very end. It covers from when Shingen exiled his father to his funeral three years after his death.
Production
Sword fight arranger - Kunishirō Hayashi
Cast
Takeda clan
Kiichi Nakai as Takeda Shingen
Claude Maki as young Shingen and Takeda Katsuyori
Mikijirō Hira as Takeda Nobutora, Shingen's father
Ayako Wakao as Lady Ōi, Shingen's mother (series narrator)
Misako Konno as Lady Sanjō, Shingen's wife
Mayumi Ogawa as Yae
Yoko Minamino as Okoko and Koihime
Mao Daichi as Satomi
Kimiko Ikegami as Eri
Takeshi Wakamatsu as Takeda Nobushige
Masaru Shinozuka as Takeda Nobukado
Shinichi Tsutsumi as Takeda Yoshinobu
Nakamura Shichinosuke II as young Yoshinobu
Katsuya Kobayashi as Hara Masatoshi
Kei Satō as Abe Katsuyoshi
Taketoshi Naito as Gishū
"Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen"
Joe Shishido as Hara Toratane
Kiyoshi Kodama as Obu Toramasa
Ryōsuke Miki as Baba Nobuharu
Kōjirō Hongō as Amari Torayasu
Bunta Sugawara as Itagaki Nobukata
Uesugi clan
Kyōhei Shibata as Uesugi Kenshin, Shingen's rival
Ken Utsui as Naoe Kagetsuna
Yūsuke Takita as Uesugi Norimasa
Tokuma Nishioka as Kitajō Takahiro
Hiroshi Katsuno as Ōkuma Tomohide
Imagawa clan
Nakamura Kankurō V as Imagawa Yoshimoto
Kyōko Kishida as Jukeini
Ichirō Zaitsu as Taigen Sessai
Later Hōjō clan
Ryōtarō Sugi as Hōjō Ujiyasu
Yūichi Aoyama as Hōjō Ujimasa
Mai Okamoto as Oume
Takao Inoue as Matsuda Norihide
Oda clan
Ryo Ishibashi as Oda Nobunaga
Yumi Asō as Nōhime
Tsuyoshi Ihara as Oda Nobuyuki
Tokugawa clan
Nakamura Hashinosuke III as Tokugawa Ieyasu
Shinshō Nakamaru as Sakai Tadatsugu
Suwa clan
Bandō Yasosuke V as Suwa Yorishige
Yorie Yamashita as Nene Goryōnin
Murakami clan
Tsunehiko Kamijō as Murakami Yoshikiyo
Others
Ichikawa Danzō IX as Ashikaga Yoshiaki, the last shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate