Atsuhime

Atsuhime (2008)

Drama

The 47th NHK Taiga Drama is a life story of Princess Atsu, who was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, then called Satsuma, and became the wife of Tokugawa Iesada, the 13th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. She accedes to the highest rank in Ooku, the inner palace of the Edo castle where women related to the reigning shogun resided. Iesada dies soon after their marriage and Atsuhime assumes the name Tenshoin at the age of 23. She exerts herself for the Tokugawa clan and for the nation during the upheaval in the Meiji Restoration, headed by those from Satsuma.

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  • First Air Date: 2008-01-06
  • Last Air Date: 2008-12-14
  • Total Seasons: 1
  • Total Episodes: 50
  • Episode Runtime: 45 min.
  • Network: NHK BS1, NHK
  • Creator: Tomiko Miyao

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Seasons

  • Season 1

    50 Episodes

Trailer

Cast

  • Aoi Miyazaki

    Okatsu / Atsu-hime

  • Eita Nagayama

    Kimotsuki Naogoro

  • Maki Horikita

    Princess Kazu

  • Rie Tomosaka

  • Ikki Sawamura

    Komatsu Kiyomichi

  • Hideki Takahashi

  • Taizo Harada

  • Kimiko Yo

    Hisa-hime

  • Hiroshi Tamaki

  • Kanako Higuchi

  • Atsuko Takahata

    Honjuin

  • Kyōzō Nagatsuka

  • Mayu Tsuruta

  • Yuriko Yoshitaka

  • Mikako Ichikawa

    Oryu

  • Masato Sakai

    Tokugawa Iesachi

  • Kinya Kitaoji

  • Masao Kusakari

    Abe Masahiro

  • Tomoko Nakajima

  • Kenichi Yajima

  • Mayumi Wakamura

  • Sumie Sasaki

  • Yoshinori Okada

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