Kurama Tengu
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Details
- Title: 鞍馬天狗
- Title (romaji): Kurama Tengu
- Format: Renzoku
- Genre: Jidaigeki
- Episodes: 8
- Viewership ratings: 11.3 (Kanto)
- Broadcast network: NHK
- Broadcast period: 2008-Jan-17 to 2008-Mar-06
- Air time: Thursday 22:00-22:43
Synopsis
A story about a masked samurai who takes sides with the good and wipes out the evil. In the late Edo period in Kyoto, samurai are killing each other because of the differences of their beliefs in the Tokugawa shogunate, and commoners are struck with terror. Kurama Tengu, a masked samurai, appears on the scene and helps innocent people from trouble. --NHK
User/Viewer Ratings
Cast
- Nomura Mansai as Kurama Tengu / Ono Munefusa / Kurata Tenzen
- Kyono Kotomi as Shiragikuhime
- Hada Michiko as Ikumatsu
- Ishihara Yoshizumi as Katsura Kogoro
- Sugimoto Tetta as Hijikata Toshizo
- Ogata Naoto as Kondo Isami
- Tokui Yuu as Kurohime no Kichibei
Production Credits
- Original writing: Osaragi Jiro Kurama Tengu (novel)
- Screenwriter: Furuta Motomu (古田求) (ep1-2,7-8), Kawakami Hideyuki (川上英幸) (ep3-6)
- Chief producer: Furukawa Hoichiro (古川法一郎)
- Visual director: Nishioka Yoshinobu (西岡善信)
- Director: Noda Yusuke (eps1-3,7-8), Yoshikuni Isao (吉國勲) (ep6), Tanaka Tadashi (eps4-5)
- Music: Hattori Takayuki
- Musical performance: コンセール・レニエ
Episode Information
| Episode | Subtitle (English) | Original Work | Ratings (Kanto) |
Ratings (Kansai) | Ratings (Nationwide) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Enter the Tengu | Kimen no Rojo | 12.7 | ??.? | ??.? |
| 02 | Fated Enemies | Ginkiseru | 13.1 | ??.? | ??.? |
| 03 | The Stone-Throwing Lady | Jorogumo | 11.4 | ??.? | ??.? |
| 04 | Tale of the Sangakuto, Part I | Sangakuto Kidan | 10.6 | ??.? | ??.? |
| 05 | Tale of the Sangakuto, Part II | Sangakuto Kidan | 10.3 | ??.? | ??.? |
| 06 | The Tengu and the Lullaby | -- | 10.8 | ??.? | ??.? |
| 07 | Kakubee-jishi, Part I | Kakubee-jishi | 11.3 | ??.? | ??.? |
| 08 | Kakubee-jishi, Part II | Kakubee-jishi | 09.8 | ??.? | ??.? |
| Average | -- | -- | 11.3 | ??.? | ??.? |
Source: Video Research, Ltd.

