Details

* Title: 篤姫
* Title (romaji): Atsu-hime / Atsuhime / Atsu Hime
* Format: Renzoku
* Genre: Jidaigeki
* Episodes: 50
* Broadcast network: NHK
* Broadcast period: 2008-Jan-6 to 2008-Dec-14
* Air time: Sunday 20:00


Synopsis

The 47th NHK Taiga Drama is a life story of Atsuhime 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. In 1835, Shimazu Tadatake, head of the Imaizumi-Shimazu family of Satsuma clan, and Oyuki are blessed with a long-awaited daughter, Okatsu, who later becomes Atsuhime. She grows up as a tomboy, full of wonders, yet warm-hearted. Meanwhile, as Satsuma clan is under going financial reform, headed by chief retainer Zusho, Tadatake is punished for being lenient with farmers. Okatsu, unable to absorb why her father is punished, charges over to Zusho.


Cast

Heroine

* Miyazaki Aoi as Atsu-hime


Government

* Horikita Maki as Kazunomiya Chikako
* Kitaoji Kinya as Katsu Kaishuu
* Emori Toru as Tokugawa Nariaki
* Hira Takehiro as Tokugawa Yoshinobu
* Sakai Masato as Tokugawa Iesada
* Matsuda Shota as Tokugawa Iemochi
* Kusakari Masao as Abe Masahiro


Satsuma Feudal Clan

* Shimazu Nariakira TBA
* Eita as Komatsu Tatewaki
* Ozawa Yukiyoshi as Saigo Takamori
* Harada Taizo as Okubo Toshimichi
* Yoshitaka Yuriko as Otetsu


Loyal Retainers

* Tamaki Hiroshi as Sakamoto Ryoma
* Ichikawa Mikako as Oryu


Ooku

* Matsuzaka Keiko as Ikushima
* Inamori Izumi as Takiyama
* Tsuruta Mayu as Oshiga
* Takahashi Yumiko as Karahashi
* Takahata Atsuko


Other Cast

* Nagatsuka Kyozo as Shimazu Tadatake
* Higuchi Kanako as Oyuki
* Okada Yoshinori as Shimazu Tadataka
* Sasaki Sumie as Kikumoto
* Shunputei Koasa (春風亭小朝) as Konoe Tadahiro
* Sawamura Ikki as Komatsu Kiyomichi
* Tomosaka Rie as Chika
* Enoki Takaaki as Kimotsuki Kaneyoshi
* Matoba Koji as Arima Shinshichi
* Maya Kyoko as Okubo Fuku
* Yamaguchi Yuichiro as Shimazu Hisamitsu
* Nagato Hiroyuki as Shimazu Narioki
* Suzukaze Mayo as Yura
* Hira Mikijiro as Chosho Hirosato
* Takahashi Hideki as Shimazu Nariakira
* Endo Yuya as Arimura Jizaemon
* Tanoue Kokichi as Arimura Yusuke
* Nakamura Baijaku as Ii Naosuke
* Tatsumi Takuro as Hotta Masayoshi
* Yamamoto Ryuji as Tateyama
* Sato Aiko
* Yo Kimiko
* Wakamura Mayumi
* Togi Hideki (東儀秀樹)
* Nakamura Meiko
* Katsuji Ryo


Trivia

* Miyazaki Aoi, at 22 years, 1 month is the youngest lead artist in a NHK taiga drama. The record was previously held by Takizawa Hideaki (Yoshitsune, 2005) at 22 years, 9 months.


Official site: http://www.nhk.or.jp/taiga/

Very nice....

Omedeto gozaemasu...!
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bmwracer wrote:

Very nice.... Omedeto gozaemasu...!

Hah thank you I even managed to put in a picture

adylma wrote:

Hah thank you I even managed to put in a picture

Pictures are always nice...
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Hmm, I probably wont start watching this until Maki shows up in it... I hope I will be able to catch up in the story though

atskv9 wrote:

Hmm, I probably wont start watching this until Maki shows up in it... I hope I will be able to catch up in the story though

I've been waiting for the first ep since sunday.. nothing so far..

LOL, it's very interesting and coincidental that the two Momogaoka school conductors from Nodame are in this Taiga: Tamaki Hiroshi (Chiaki Shinichi) and Endo Yuya (Ookouchi Mamoru)...
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thread has been tagged.

(From ep. 1) Mine's new hairdo:

concertmaster wrote:

(From ep. 1) Mine's new hairdo:

Eita!!

adylma wrote:

Eita!!

Don't you mean "Itai....!!"
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concertmaster wrote:

(From ep. 1) Mine's new hairdo:

ouch
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adylma wrote:

Eita!!

The worst I ever saw his ears was in the beginning of STMB when he's wearing a baseball cap. BOY!!! did that ever make his ears stick out!!! I thought it was the funniest part of the movie and they weren't even playing it for laughs.

Eita, get your ears fixed now!!!

Itai indeed It's a bit difficult to take him seriously sometimes though.. is it for the ears? Like in Sapuri, where he's supposed to be a really kakkoii man... hm..

EstherM wrote:

Eita, get your ears fixed now!!!

He needs to stick to modern dramas... His ears wouldn't fly (no pun intended) in medieval Japan.
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totally off-topic but maybe we should start an "Eita´s ears" thread.

Sumimasen ... leaving

EstherM wrote:

totally off-topic but maybe we should start an "Eita´s ears" thread. Sumimasen ... leaving

EstherM wrote:

totally off-topic but maybe we should start an "Eita´s ears" thread. Sumimasen ... leaving

I think he has his own thread... You can rag on his ears there...
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bmwracer wrote:

I think he has his own thread... You can rag on his ears there...

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