Taira no Kiyomori (TV series)

Taira no Kiyomori
Japanese	平清盛
Genre	Taiga drama
Written by	Yuki Fujiumoto
Directed by	Takeshi Shibata
Starring	Kenichi Matsuyama Hiroshi Tamaki Shota Matsuda Naohito Fujiki Kyoko Fukada Hiroshi Mikami Ai Kato Kōsuke Toyohara Gō Morita Riko Narumi Masataka Kubota Masaki Okada Anne Watanabe Ryunosuke Kamiki Rei Dan Koji Yamamoto Rena Tanaka Emi Takei Sadao Abe Arata Iura Hisashi Yoshizawa Kōji Katō Seiko Matsuda Fumiyo Kohinata Takashi Ukaji Emi Wakui Yasuko Matsuyuki Takaya Kamikawa Jun Kunimura Nakamura Baijaku II Shirō Itō Kiichi Nakai
Narrated by	Masaki Okada
Opening theme	NHK Symphony Orchestra
Composer	Takashi Yoshimatsu
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of episodes	50
Original release
Network	NHK
Release	January 8 (2012-01-08) – December 23, 2012 (2012-12-23)

Taira no Kiyomori (平清盛) is a 2012 Japanese historical television series. It is the 51st NHK taiga drama.

Production

Production Credits

• Original – Yuki Fujiumoto
• Music – Takashi Yoshimatsu
• Titling – Shōko Kanazawa
• Narrator – Masaki Okada
• Historical research – Masaaki Takahashi
• Sword fight arranger - Kunishirō Hayashi
• Architectural research – Sei Hirai
• Clothing research – Kiyoko Koizumi

Cast

Taira clan (Heike)

• Kenichi Matsuyama as Taira no Kiyomori, a military leader of the late Heian period of Japan
  • Ōshirō Maeda as young Kiyomori
• Kiichi Nakai as Taira no Tadamori, the father of Taira no Kiyomori
• Atsuo Nakamura as Taira no Masamori
• Kōsuke Toyohara as Taira no Tadamasa
• Nakamura Baijaku II as Taira no Iesada
• Kyoko Fukada as Taira no Tokiko, Kiyomori's wife
• Ai Kato as Takashina no Akiko
• Takaya Kamikawa as Taira no Morikuni
• Go Morita as Taira no Tokitada
• Takahiro Fujimoto as Itō Tadakiyo
• Shunsuke Daito as Taira no Iemori
• Takahiro Nishijima as Taira no Yorimori
• Masataka Kubota as Taira no Shigemori
  • Takuma Hiraoka as young Shigemori
• Hideo Ishiguro as Taira no Munemori
  • Takuya Kusakawa as young Munemori
• Koji Kato as Usagimaru
• Mahiro Takasugi as Kousagimaru
• Emi Wakui as Ikenozenni
• Riko Narumi as "Kenshunmon-in" Shigeko
• Fumi Nikaido as Taira no Tokuko
• Tsuyoshi Muro as Taira no Tadanori

Minamoto clan (Genji)

• Fumiyo Kohinata as Minamoto no Tameyoshi, a head of the Minamoto samurai clan
• Hiroshi Tamaki as Minamoto no Yoshitomo
• Rena Tanaka as Yura Gozen
• Emi Takei as Tokiwa Gozen
• Masaki Okada as Minamoto no Yoritomo, Yoshitomo's third son / Narrator
  • Taishi Nakagawa as young Yoritomo
• Ryunosuke Kamiki as Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Yoshitomo's ninth son
  • Ryunosuke Hashino as young Yoshitsune (a.k.a. Ushiwakamaru)
• Munetaka Aoki as Benkei
• Takashi Ukaji as Minamoto no Yorimasa
• Kenichi Endō as Hōjō Tokimasa
• Mayumi Tsukiyama as Maki no Kata
• Anne as Hōjō Masako
• Takuya Nakayama as Hōjō Yoshitoki
• Takashi Tsukamoto as Tōkurō
• Saki Fukuda as Yae, Yoritomo's first wife.

Imperial family

• Shirō Itō as Emperor Shirakawa, the 72nd emperor of Japan
• Hiroshi Mikami as Emperor Toba, the 74th emperor of Japan
• Arata Iura as Emperor Sutoku, the 75th emperor of Japan
• Takumi Kitamura as Emperor Konoe, the 76th emperor of Japan
• Shota Matsuda as Emperor Go-Shirakawa, the 77th emperor of Japan
• Satoshi Tomiura as Emperor Nijō, the 78th emperor of Japan
• Yudai Chiba as Emperor Takakura, the 80th emperor of Japan
• Yūta Tanaka as Emperor Antoku, the 81st emperor of Japan

Others

• Naohito Fujiki as Saigyō
• Seiko Matsuda as Gion no nyōgo
• Yasuko Matsuyuki as Bifukumon'in
• Rei Dan as Taikenmon'in, the consort of Emperor Toba
• Sadao Abe as Shinzei
• Koji Yamamoto as Fujiwara no Yorinaga
• Keisuke Horibe as Fujiwara no Tadamichi
• Jun Kunimura as Fujiwara no Tadazane
• Shigeki Hosokawa as Fujiwara no Motofusa
• Hisashi Yoshizawa　as Fujiwara no Narichika
• Toranosuke Kato as Saikō
• Toru Nomaguchi as Fujiwara no Korekata (episodes 25, 26, and 28)
  • Toshihiro Yashiba as Fujiwara no Korekata (episode 19)
• Manabu Hamada as Kajiwara Kagetoki
• Kō Takasugi as Kazusa Hirotsune
• Toshiya Nagasawa as Takeda Nobuyoshi
• Ryūta Mine as Itō Sukechika
• Seiji Kinoshita as Ōba Kagechika
• Shun Sugata as Miura Yoshiaki
• Hajime Tanimoto as Miura Yoshizumi, Yoshiaki's son
• Kenzō as Sasaki Hideyoshi
• Moro Moro'oka as Doi Sanehira
• Masakazu Itō as Chiba Tsunetane
• Ryū Nakamura as Yamaki Kanetaka
• Muga Tsukaji as Fujiwara no Nobuyori
• Masaki Kyomoto as Fujiwara no Hidehira

External links

• Official site (in Japanese)
• Taira no Kiyomori at IMDb