Fuurin Kazan (NHK)

Fuurin Kazan

Details

• Title: 風林火山
• Title (romaji): Fuurin Kazan
• Title (English): Samurai Banners
• Format: Renzoku
• Genre: Jidaigeki
• Episodes: 50
• Viewership ratings: Avg: 18.7%, high: 22.9% (Kanto)
• Broadcast network: NHK
• Broadcast period: 2007-Jan-07 to 2007-Dec-16
• Air time: Sunday 20:00

Synopsis

The 46th NHK taiga drama is a life story of Yamamoto Kansuke, a lonely genius of strategy at the Age of the Civil War in the 16th century. Kansuke works under Takeda Shingen and pursues his dream of unifying the whole country through aiding the warlord of Kai. At the same time, Kansuke supports Shingen's concubine Yu from his selfless affection for the woman who hates but eventually loves the warlord who killed her father and family. With the aid of Kansuke's strategies, Shingen expands his power northward, where he is destined to fight with Kenshin Uesugi, the warlord of Echigo. The drama portrays how those who fight for their dreams face their destinies in the turbulent age.

• Synopsis for episodes 1 thru 30
• Synopsis for episodes 31 thru 50

User/Viewer Ratings

5.00

(one vote)

Cast

Correlation Chart, scanned by groink

Yamamoto Family

• Uchino Masaaki as Gensuke (源助)→Obayashi Kansuke→Yamamoto Kansuke (Haruyuki)
  • Yamauchi Hayate (山内颯) as Gensuke
• Ito Takashi (伊藤高) as Yamamoto Sadayuki (father of Kansuke)
• Ameku Michiko as Yasu (mother of Kansuke)
• Mitsuishi Ken as Toushichi→Yamamoto Sadahisa

Obayashi Family

• Sasano Takashi as Obayashi Kanzaemon (foster father of Kansuke)
• Mizusawa Aki as Kikuyo (Wife of Kanzaemon)
• Kadono Sho (門野翔) as Obayashi Kanbee (Kanzaemon's child)

Takeda Family

Family Members

• Ichikawa Kamejiro as Takeda Harunobu → Takeda Shingen
• Shibamoto Yuki as Yuu Hime (由布姫)
• Ikewaki Chizuru as Sanjo Fujin (三条夫人)
• Nakadai Tatsuya as Takeda Nobutora (武田信虎)
• Fubuki Jun as Ooi Fujin
• Sakurai Sachiko as Nene (禰々)
• Kashima Noritoshi (嘉島典俊) as Takeda Nobushige (武田信繁)
• Tsuji Kazunaga as Katsunuma Nobutomo (Nobutora's younger brother)
• Fukuda Mayuko as Ume Hime (梅姫)
• Hirata Kaoru as Aya Hime (嶺松院)
• Kato Seishiro as Takeda Yoshinobu (武田義信)

Takeda Vassal

• Chiba Shinichi as Itagaki Nobukata
• Asada Miyoko as Hagino
• Kaneda Akio as Obu Toramasa
• Ryu Raita as Amari Torayasu
• Sasaki Kuranosuke as Sanada Yukitaka
• Shimizu Misa as Shinome (Yukitaka's wife)
• Takahashi Kazuya as Baba Nobuharu (馬場信春)
• Tanabe Seiichi as Oyamada Nobuari (小山田信有)
• Shishido Kai as Hara Toratane
• Kato Takeshi as Murozumi Torasada
• Tanaka Koutaro as Kosaka Masanobu
• Terajima Susumu as Akabe Shimomori
• Kanno Rio → Maki Yoko as Miru Hime

Warring States Generals

Nagao and the Uesugi Family

• Gackt as Uesugi Kenshin
• Ichikawa Sadanji as Uesugi Norimasa (上杉憲政)
• Nishida Naomi as Sentoin

Imagawa Family

• Tanihara Shosuke as Baigaku Shouhou →Imagawa Yoshimoto
• Fujimura Shiho as Jukeini (寿桂尼)
• Ibu Masato as Taigen Sessai
• Ishibashi Renji as Ihara Tadatane (庵原忠胤) (Sessai's older brother), (Kansuke's granduncle)
• Segawa Ryo as Ihara Yukimasa (庵原之政) (Sessai's son)
• Igawa Tetsuya (井川哲也) as Genko Etan
• Terry Ito (テリー伊藤) as Kushima Echizen no Kami
• Sakimoto Hiromi as Kushima Hikojuurou (Kushima's son)
• Osuga Yuko (大須賀裕子) as Hikojuurou's mother

Hojo House

• Matsui Makoto (松井誠) as Hojo Ujiyasu (北条氏康)
• Shinagawa Toru as Hojo Ujitsuna
• Yokouchi Tadashi (横内正) as Shimizu Yoshimasa
• Sakaki Hideo as Matsuda Shichirozaemon (Makoto's martial arts instructor)

Shinano Clan

• Kohinata Fumiyo as Suwa Yorishige
• Okamori Akira (岡本諦) as Yazaki Jugoro (Suwa Vassal)
• Mizukawa Asami as Hisa (Jugoro's daugther)

Others

Poet

• Kameyama Sukekiyo (亀山助清) as Asukai Miyabikyo
• Shoji Eiken (庄司永建) as 大井入道宗芸 (Ooi Fujin's father)

Kuzukasa Village

• Kanjiya Shihori as Mitsu (Kansuke's girlfriend)
• Arizono Yoshiki as Densuke → 河原村伝兵衛 (Mitsu's older brother・板垣家臣)
• Arima Jiyu (有馬自由) as Takichi → 葛笠太吉
• Sato Ryuta as Heizo

Miscellaneous

• Takahashi Issei as Komai Masatake
• Omori Akemi
• Shionoya Masayuki (塩野谷正幸)
• Shihodo Wataru as Aoki Daizen
• Hashimoto Jun as Tokita Takanaga
• Maeda Aki as Ritsu (Hara Toratane's daughter)
• Yagi Yuki
• Hara Maika as Tome (ep13,18)
• Shibuya Takeru (ep25)
• Taiga (ep37)

Production Credits

• Original writing: Inoue Yasushi (井上靖), written in 1955
• Screenwriter: Omori Sumio
• Producer: Wakaizumi Hisaaki
• Director: Shimizu Kazuhiko (清水一彦)
• Music: Senju Akira
• Epigraph: Kakinuma Koji (柿沼康二)

Episode Ratings

See Fuurin Kazan (NHK)/Episode Ratings

Notes

• 風林火山 (fuu-rin-ka-zan, where fuu=wind, rin=woods, ka=fire, zan=mountain): The original line of this four-character-idiom comes from a battle strategy from centuries ago and goes as follows: as swift as the wind, as quiet as the woods, as fierce as the fire, as strong as the mountain. The sentence goes on as an action agenda for victory in war/battles, basically telling that the key to victory is to rightly judge the situation and take appropriate action at the right time. Four kanji symbolizing the phrase are taken out and combined for this idiom. -- jmode.com

External Links

• Official site (archived)
• NHK Archives
• Japanese Wikipedia

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