Gunshi Kanbei
3=Gunshi Kanbei is a 2014 Japanese historical drama television series and the 53rd NHK taiga drama. The series was broadcast from January 5 to December 21, 2014, and ran a total of 50 episodes. The drama depicts the life of Kuroda Kanbei, a retainer of daimyō Kodera Masamoto of Harima Province, and a strategist for daimyō Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
Plot
The drama tells the story of Kuroda Kanbei, a son of Kuroda Mototaka, chief retainer of Kodera Masamoto who ruled Harima Province in the 16th century. In troubled times, Kanbei persuades Kodera to join forces with the all-powerful Oda Nobunaga. Though imprisoned by Araki Murashige and lamed for life, Kanbei endures hardships and later becomes a strategist for Toyotomi Hideyoshi. His son Kuroda Nagamasa serves Tokugawa Ieyasu after the death of Toyotomi.Production
- Screenwriter – Yoichi Maekawa
- Music – Yugo Kanno
- Titling – Shoshu
- Narrator – Shiho Fujimura→Shuko Hirose
- Historical research –
- Action director – Kunishirō Hayashi
- Architectural research – Kiyoshi Hirai
- Clothing research – Kiyoko Koizumi
- Production coordinator – Takashi Nakamura
- Director – Kenji Tanaka, Kazuhiro Motoki
- Performed by Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
- Theme performed by NHK Symphony Orchestra
Cast
Kuroda family
- Kuroda Kanbei: Junichi Okada
- Kushihashi Teru: Miki Nakatani
- Kuroda Nagamasa: Tori Matsuzaka
- Kuroda Mototaka: Kyōhei Shibata
- Kuroda Kyumu: Daisuke Ryu
- Kuroda Shigetaka: Raita Ryū
- Kuriyama Zensuke: Gaku Hamada
- Mori Tahei: Mokomichi Hayami
- Inoue Kuroemon: Issei Takahashi
- Gotō Matabei: Takashi Tsukamoto
- Mori Kohei: Sansei Shiomi
- Mori Buhei: Masaru Nagai
- Ito: Mitsuki Takahata
- Omichi: Rila Fukushima
- Eihime: Miyu Yoshimoto
Ibuki
- Ibuki Zenemon: Isao Bito
- Tatsu: Nao Minamisawa
Kodera Clan
- Kodera Masamoto: Tsurutaro Kataoka
- Kon: Saki Takaoka
- Kushihashi Sakyonosuke: Toru Masuoka
- Kushihashi Sayonoshin: Nobuaki Kaneko
- Ogō Yoshitoshi: Tsutomu Isobe
Oda Clan
- Oda Nobunaga: Yōsuke Eguchi
- No: Yuki Uchida
- Akechi Mitsuhide: Shunputei Koasa
- Niwa Nagahide: Hiroshi Katsuno
- Shibata Katsuie: Yoshimasa Kondo
- Dota Gozen: Naoko Otani
- Yasuke: Bernard Ackah
- Oichi: Kyoko Uchida
- Oda Nobutada: Tomoya Nakamura
- Oda Nobutaka: Masei Nakayama
- Oda Nobukatsu: Shōta Kosakai
- Mori Ranmaru: Hayato Kakizawa
Toyotomi Clan
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Naoto Takenaka
- One: Hitomi Kuroki
- Takenaka Hanbei: Shosuke Tanihara
- Hachisuka Koroku: Pierre Taki
- Ishida Mitsunari: Kei Tanaka
- Cha-cha: Fumi Nikaidō
- Fukushima Masanori: Hideo Ishiguro
- Katō Kiyomasa: Shinnosuke Abe
- Toyotomi Hidetsugu: Akiyoshi Nakao
- Konishi Yukinaga: Shugo Oshinari
- Magdalena: Mako Ishino
- Sassa Narimasa: Ryosuke Otani
- Ukita Hideie: Kouhei Takeda
- Kobayakawa Hideaki: Yosuke Asari
- Ōtani Yoshitsugu: Shingo Murakami
- Ōno Harunaga: Yasuhito Shimao
Tokugawa Clan
- Tokugawa Ieyasu: Akira Terao
- Ii Naomasa: Mikihisa Azuma
- Honda Tadakatsu: Masayuki Shionoya
- Sakakibara Yasumasa: Ikuji Nakamura
Mōri Clan
- Mōri Terumoto: Kota Miura
- Kobayakawa Takakage: Shingo Tsurumi
- Kikkawa Motoharu: Kazutoyo Yoshimi
- Ankokuji Ekei: Kazuhiro Yamaji
- Ukita Naoie: Takanori Jinnai
- Shimizu Muneharu: Takashi Ukaji
- Kikkawa Motonaga: Masayuki Deai
Others
- Araki Murashige: Tetsushi Tanaka
- Dashi: Mirei Kiritani
- Ashikaga Yoshiaki: Mitsuru Fukikoshi
- Sen no Rikyū: Masatō Ibu
- Takayama Ukon/Dom Justo Takayama: Toma Ikuta
- Maeda Toshiie: Tadashi Yokouchi
- Yoshida Kanemi: Masami Horiuchi
- Otsuru: Yui Ichikawa
- Ōtomo Sōrin: Tsunehiko Kamijō
- Utsunomiya Shigefusa: Takehiro Murata
- Hōjō Ujimasa: Goro Ibuki
- Hōjō Ujinao: Masayoshi Haneda
- Matsunaga Hisahide: Mickey Curtis
- Gnecchi-Soldo Organtino: Bob Werley
- Luís Fróis: Oziel Nozaki
- Gaspar Coelho: Ricardo Teixeira
Books
- NHK Taiga Drama Story Gunshi Kanbei Vol.1
- Yoichi Maekawa and Kuniko Aoki, Taiga Drama Gunshi Kanbei'', Tokyo, NHK Publishing Co., Ltd., 2014