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Details

• Title: 麒麟がくる
• Title (romaji): Kirin ga Kuru
• Format: Renzoku
• Genre: Jidaigeki
• Episodes: TBD
• Broadcast network: NHK
• Broadcast period: 2020-Jan-05 (TBD) to 2020-Dec-??
• Air time: Sunday 20:00

Synopsis

It deals with the real-life story of Akechi Mitsuhide (Hasegawa Hiroki), an honorable samurai, and a strategic general during the Sengoku period of Feudal Japan, it will chronicle Mitsuhide Akechi's rebellion against Oda Nobunaga, in 1582 which later ignited the well documented and known Battle of Yamazaki.

Cast

• Hasegawa Hiroki as Akechi Mitsuhide
• Kadowaki Mugi
• Okamura Takashi (岡村隆史)
• Ishikawa Sayuri (石川さゆり)
• Nishimura Masahiko
• Takahashi Katsunori
• Uesugi Shozo (上杉祥三)
• Omi Toshinori
• Ito Hideaki
• Kawaguchi Haruna
• Sometani Shota
• Motoki Masahiro
• Kimura Fumino
• Minami Kaho
• Murata Takehiro
• Tokushige Satoshi
• Kataoka Ainosuke
• Ibuki Goro
• Dan Rei
• Sasaki Kuranosuke
• Kazama Shunsuke
• Mukai Osamu
• Takito Kenichi
• Tanihara Shosuke
• Mashima Hidekazu
• Yoshida Kotaro
• Ono Machiko
• Ichikawa Ebizo as narrator

Production Credits

• Screenwriter: Ikehata Shunsaku (池端俊策), Maekawa Yoichi (前川洋一)
• Executive Producer: Ochiai Sho (落合将)
• Director: Ohara Taku (大原拓)
• Music: John Graham

External Links

• NHK PR post
• Japanese Wikipedia

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