Kusa Moeru

Kusa Moeru (草燃える) is a 1979 Japanese television series. It is the 17th NHK taiga drama.[1]

Kusa Moeru
Genre	Taiga drama
Written by	Takehiro Nakajima
Directed by	Makoto Ohara
Starring	Kōji Ishizaka Shima Iwashita Ken Matsudaira Shōhei Hino Sakae Takita Tetsuya Takeda Hiroshi Fujioka Ryunosuke Kaneda Mitsuko Kusabue Shinjirō Ehara Kyōko Maya Keiko Matsuzaka Onoe Tatsunosuke I Onoe Shoroku II
Theme music composer	Joji Yuasa
Opening theme	NHK Symphony Orchestra
Country of origin	Japan
Original language(s)	Japanese
No. of episodes	51
Production
Running time	45 minutes
Release
Original network	NHK
Original release	January 7 – December 23, 1979

Story

Kusa Moeru deals with the Kamakura period. Based on Michiko Nagai`s novels "Hojo Masako" and "Enkan".[2][3]

The story chronicles the life of Hōjō Masako.[4][1]

Cast

Minamoto no Yoritomo's family

• Kōji Ishizaka as Minamoto no Yoritomo, the first shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate
• 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

Minamoto no Yoritomo's vassels

• 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
• Shin Kishida as Ōe no Hiromoto
• Kohji Moritsugu as Hatakeyama Shigetada
• Goro Ibuki as Wada Yoshimori

Hōjō clan

• Ryunosuke Kaneda as Hōjō Tokimasa
• Naoko Otani as Makino Kata
• Ken Matsudaira as Hojo Yoshitoki
• Jin Nakayama as Hōjō Munetoki
• Junpei Morita as Hōjō Tokifusa
• Ryoko Sakaguchi
• Keiko Matsuzaka as Akane

Taira clan

• Nobuo Kaneko as Taira no Kiyomori
• Ken Nishida as Taira no Munemori

Others

• 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
• Kimiko Ikegami as Ohime
• Rokko Toura as Minamoto no Yukiie
• Rino Katase
• Akihiro Miwa
• Akihiko Hirata
• Junko Natsu as Kyo no Tsubone
• Kōjirō Kusanagi as Chinnakei
• Mitsuko Kusabue as Tango no Tsubone
• Onoe Shoroku II as Go-Shirakawa

References

1. "Kusa Moeru". NHK. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
2. "草燃える総集編". NHK スクエア. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
3. "草燃える". Aamazon. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
4. "草燃える". ドラマデータ. Retrieved January 22, 2019.

External links

• Taiga drama Kusa Moeru NHK