Byakkotai

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Details

• Title: 白虎隊 （びゃっこたい）
• Title (romaji): Byakkotai
• Format: Tanpatsu, in two parts
• Genre:
• Broadcast network: TV Asahi
• Broadcast period: 2007-Jan-6 and 2007-Jan-7
• Air time:
• Related shows: Byakkotai 1986
• Theme song: You Raise Me Up by Celtic Woman

Synopsis

A re-make of the 1986 hit, which scored 80-percent in the Aizu district of Fukushima prefecture.

"Byakkotai" seems to be a story by which the content of the drama visits Byakkotai Memorial Hall by a modern young person who is the descendant of a Byakkotai samurai, and traces the history of the tragedy of the Byakkotai in the force organized by about 340 boys of 16 years old and 17 years old at Boshin War (Aizu war). Yamashita performs two roles (a Byakkotai samurai in the old days and the descendant's Shintaro Sakai)

Cast

• Yamashita Tomohisa as Sakai Mineji and Sakai Shintaro
• Tanaka Koki as Shinoda Gisaburo and Shinoda Yusuke
• Fujigaya Taisuke as Itou Matahachi
• Higashiyama Noriyuki as Matsudaira Katamori
• Yakushimaru Hiroko as Sakai Shige (Mineji's mother)
• Nogiwa Yoko as Sakai Mon (Mineji's grandmother)
• Wakamura Mayumi as Shinoda Shinko (Gisaburo's mother)
• Kobayashi Nenji
• Asano Yuko
• Sakimoto Hiromi
• Tsujimoto Yuki 辻本 祐樹
• Hashidume Ryo
• Saito Shota
• Tomita Sho
• Tochihara Rakuto 栩原 楽人
• Kujirai Kousuke 鯨井 康介
• Kuroki Meisa as Asai Sayako
• Nakagoshi Noriko as Yamamoto Yaeko
• Matsushige Yutaka as Yamamoto Kakuma

External Links

• Japanese Wikipedia
• Official Site