Taira no Kiyomori (TV series)

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

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