Yae no Sakura

Title:

Yae no Sakura

Native title:

八重の桜

Also known as:

Yae's Sakura

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Airing dates:

Jan 6, 2013 - Dec 15, 2013

Original network:

NHK

Episodes:

Duration:

45 min.

Director:

Masae Ichiki, Yoshiharu Sasaki, Hajime Suenaga, Ryohei Nakano, Taku Kato

Screenwriter:

Mutsumi Yamamoto, Yuiko Miura, Tomoko Yoshizawa

OST:

Yae no Sakura OST

Production company:

NHK

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Descrption

Yae no Sakura (八重の桜) is a 2013 Japanese historical drama television series and the 52nd NHK taiga drama. Written by Mutsumi Yamamoto, the drama stars Haruka Ayase as Niijima Yae, also known as Yamamoto Yaeko, who was born into the Aizu Domain during the late Edo period. She helped defend Aizu during the Boshin War. After the war, she married educator Joseph Hardy Neesima and became a Christian, and she helped Neesima found Doshisha University.

Cast

Haruka Ayase as Niijima Yae

Rio Suzuki as childhood Yae

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Yamamoto Kakuma

Hiroki Hasegawa as Kawasaki Shonosuke

Joe Odagiri as Joseph Hardy Neesima

Jun Fubuki as Yamamoto Saku

Yutaka Matsushige as Yamamoto Gonpachi

Kyōko Hasegawa as Higuchi Ura

Mitsuki Tanimura as Yamamoto Tokie

Masahiro Toda as Tokuzō

Gō Ayano as Matsudaira Katamori

Toshiyuki Nishida as Saigō Tanomo

Izumi Inamori as Matsudaira Teru

Ayame Goriki as Hinata Yuki

Meisa Kuroki as Nakano Takeko

Takumi Saito as Jinbo Shuri

Masane Tsukayama as Jinbo Kuranosuke

Tetsuji Tamayama as Yamakawa Hiroshi

Mikako Ichikawa as Yamakawa Futaba

Ryo Katsuji as Yamakawa Kenjirō

Kumiko Akiyoshi as Yamakawa En

Kiko Mizuhara as Ōyama Sutematsu

Morio Kazama as Hayashi Yasusada

Hiroyuki Ikeuchi as Kajiwara Heima

Shido Nakamura as Sagawa Kanbei

Shingo Yanagisawa as Kayano Gonbei

Shihori Kanjiya as Fujita Tokio

Junko Miyashita as Takagi Sumie

Kotaro Koizumi as Tokugawa Yoshinobu

Takaaki Enoki as Ii Naosuke

Yū Kamio as Kondō Isami

Jun Murakami as Hijikata Toshizō

Kenji "KJ" Furuya as Saitō Hajime

Tadashi Mizuno as Nagakura Shinpachi

Shinji Suzuki as Okita Sōji

Katsuhisa Namase as Katsu Kaishū

Mitsuhiro Oikawa as Kido Takayoshi

Kazuki Kosakai as Iwakura Tomomi

Satoshi Tokushige as Ōkubo Toshimichi

Masaya Kato as Itagaki Taisuke

Takashi Sorimachi as Ōyama Iwao

Eisuke Sasai as Sanjō Sanetomi

Toranosuke Katō as Itō Hirobumi

Manabu Ino as Yamagata Aritomo

Shun Oguri as Yoshida Shōin

Takamasa Suga as Kusaka Genzui

Hitoshi Ozawa as Sera Shūzō

Koji Kikkawa as Saigō Takamori

Yoichi Hayashi as Shimazu Nariakira

Hiroaki Murakami as Matsudaira Yoshinaga

Eiji Okuda as Sakuma Shōzan

Goro Ibuki as Tokugawa Nariaki

Kyūsaku Shimada as Maki Yasuomi

Mitsuki Tanimura as Oda Tokie

Hiroki Matsukata as Ōgakiya Seihachi

Eric Bossick as Carl Wilhelm Heinrich Lehmann

Mayuko Kawakita as Tsuda Umeko

Ichikawa Somegorō VII as Emperor Kōmei

Kenji Masaki as Sakamoto Ryōma

Masahiro Takashima as Makimura Masanao

Yae's brother.

Yae's first husband.

Yae's second husband.

Yae's mother.

Yae's father.

Kakuma's first wife.

Kakuma's second wife.

Manservant of the Yamamoto family.

9th daimyō of the Aizu Domain.

Chief senior counselor of the Aizu clan.

Adoptive sister of Katamori.

Childhood friend of Yae.

A female swordmaster for the Aizu Domain.

Chief retainer of the Aizu domain and son of Kuranosuke.

Chief retainer of the Aizu domain.

Major general of the Imperial Japanese Army and childhood friend of Yae.

Childhood friend of Yae.

Kakuma’s second wife.

Awards

42nd International Emmy Awards

Best Drama Series

Yae no Sakura

Nominated

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