Mori Motonari
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Details
- Title: 毛利元就 / Mouri Motonari
- Also known as: Mori Motonari (KIKU-TV)
- Episodes: 50
- Genre: Taiga drama, renzoku drama
- Air time: Sundays at 8:00pm
- Viewership: Ep1=25.3, High=28.5, Avg=23.4
- Broadcast network: NHK
- Broadcast period: January 5 through December 14, 1997
- Theme Song:
Production Credits
- Screenwriter: Nagai Michiko
- Producer:
- Director:
- Music by:
Cast
- Nakamura Hashinosuke
- Morita Go
- Tomita Yasuko
- Matsuzaka Keiko
- Kataoka Tsurutaro
- Matoba Koji
- Enoki Takaaki
- Jinnai Takanori
- Azuma Chizuru
- Baijaku
- Hosokawa Toshiyuki
- Kaga Mariko
- Kusakari Masao
- Takeshita Keiko
- Takashima Masahiro
- Ogata Ken
Synopsis
The 36th NHK Taiga Drama is Mouri Motonari. This series chronicles the life of Mouri Motonari, a warlord of the early 1500s who stood at the vanguard of the Warring States era. All Japanese school textbooks contain the Mitsuya no kyokun, Mori's famous lesson to his three sons that teaches that while one arrow is easily broken, three arrows together cannot be broken. In 1997, 500 years after his birth, NHK dramatizes Motonari's rise from a chief of the region of Aki (now Hiroshima) to a daimyo who rules over ten provinces of the Chugoku region. Motonari was 64 years old and already the patriarch of a powerful dynasty about the time Oda Nobunaga and Takeda Shingen appeared on the scene. And even after his death, the Mori family figured prominently in Japanese history. His grandson Terumoto became a loyal Toyotomi vassal. Defeated at the Battle of Sekigahara, Ieyasu confiscated most of his lands, leaving him only with Suwo and Nagato, later known as Choshu. But 260 years later, the Mori got their ultimate revenge, leading the imperial forces against the Tokugawa in the Meiji Restoration. --KIKU TV