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Kusa Moeru (草燃える) is a 1979 Japanese television series. It is the 17th NHK taiga drama.
It is also the first Taiga drama to standardize the use of modern language in dialogue starting with this one onward. On the other hand, characters did not use first names to address others as it was considered disrespectful historically, instead used people's common names and court ranks as was custom for the time.




Story


Kusa Moeru deals with the rise and fall of the Kamakura shogunate at the start of the Kamakura period. Based on Michiko Nagai's novels "Hojo Masako", "Enkan" etc.
The story chronicles the lives of Minamoto no Yoritomo and Hōjō Masako. As the drama producers found it difficult to create a solo female protagonist, they made the drama with dual protagonists in mind. Minamoto no Yoritomo's story ends halfway with his death, then Masako takes over the leading role for the last half. However, even with this structure, the first half emphasizes on Masako's perspective of events, making her essentially the main character of the entire story.




Cast






= Minamoto no Yoritomo's family

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Kōji Ishizaka as Minamoto no Yoritomo, the first shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate
Yōji Matsuda as young Yoritomo
Shima Iwashita as Hōjō Masako
Tomiyuki Kunihiro as Minamoto no Yoshitsune
Hiromi Go as Minamoto no Yoriie, the second shōgun
Shingo Tsurumi as young Yoriie
Saburō Shinoda as Minamoto no Sanetomo, the third shōgun
Taiki Matsuno as young Sanetomo
Kimiko Ikegami as Ōhime




= Minamoto no Yoritomo's vassals

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Shinjirō Ehara as Kajiwara Kagetoki
Tetsuya Takeda as Adachi Morinaga
Shōhei Hino as Adachi Kagemori
Kei Sato as Hiki Yoshikazu
Hiroshi Fujioka as Miura Yoshimura
Toshio Shiba as Miura Taneyoshi
Masaki Kyomoto as Komawakamaru (later known as Miura Mitsumura)
Shin Kishida as Ōe no Hiromoto
Kohji Moritsugu as Hatakeyama Shigetada
Goro Ibuki as Wada Yoshimori
Jouji Nakata as Nitta Tadatsune
Hōsei Komatsu as Kazusa-no-suke Hirotsune




= Hōjō clan

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Ryunosuke Kaneda as Hōjō Tokimasa
Naoko Otani as Maki no Kata
Ken Matsudaira as Hojo Yoshitoki
Jin Nakayama as Hōjō Munetoki
Junpei Morita as Hōjō Tokifusa
Hisayuki Nakajima as Hōjō Yasutoki
Toshinori Omi as young Yasutoki
Ryoko Sakaguchi as Nohagi, a.k.a. Hime no Mae, Yoshitoki's second wife
Keiko Matsuzaka as Akane (fictional person), Yoshitoki's first wife




= Taira clan

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Nobuo Kaneko as Taira no Kiyomori
Kaneko Iwasaki as Taira no Tokiko, Kiyomori's wife
Ken Nishida as Taira no Munemori
Etsuko Ikuta as Taira no Tokuko




= Others

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Tomomi Sato as Tokiwa Gozen
Sakae Takita as Ito Sukeyuki
Akira Kume as Ito Sukechika
Isao Hashizume as Ito Sukekiyo
Takeshi Kato as Ōba Kagechika
Kyōzō Nagatsuka as Yamaki Kanetaka
Keiko Matsuzaka as Kogiku
Yumi Takigawa as Otowa
Rokko Toura as Minamoto no Yukiie
Shigeo Ozawa as Ashikaga Yoshiuji, Hōjō Yasutoki's son-in-law
Rino Katase
Yasuyoshi Hara as Soga Tokimune
Toshio Kurosawa as Kokemaru
Akihiro Miwa
Akihiko Hirata as Ichijō Yoshiyasu
Junko Natsu as Kyo no Tsubone
Kōjirō Kusanagi as Chinnakei
Mitsuko Kusabue as Tango no Tsubone
Onoe Shoroku II as Go-Shirakawa
Onoe Tatsunosuke I as Emperor Go-Toba




TV schedule



Avg. Rating: 26.3% | Peak: 34.7%. All episodes still exist, however, 18 out of 51 episodes have distorted images and sound, as well as missing fragments.




References






External links


Taiga drama Kusa Moeru NHK

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