CinemaOSSeries · 1997 · 1 Season

Mouri Motonari

90%(1)IMDbDramaWar & Politics

The 36th NHK Taiga Drama is Mori Motonari. This series chronicles the life of Mori Motonari, a warlord of the early 1500s who stood at the vanguard of the Warring States era. All Japanese school textbooks contain the Mitsuya no kyokun, Mori's famous lesson to his three sons that teaches that while one arrow is easily broken, three arrows together cannot be broken. In 1997, 500 years after his birth, NHK dramatizes Motonari's rise from a chief of the region of Aki (now Hiroshima) to a daimyo who rules over ten provinces of the Chugoku region. Motonari was 64 years old and already the patriarch of a powerful dynasty about the time Oda Nobunaga and Takeda Shingen appeared on the scene. And even after his death, the Mori family figured prominently in Japanese history. His grandson Terumoto became a loyal Toyotomi vassal. Defeated at the Battle of Sekigahara, Ieyasu confiscated most of his lands, leaving him only with Suwo and Nagato, later known as Choshu. But 260 years later, the Mori got their ultimate revenge, leading the imperial forces against the Tokugawa in the Meiji Restoration.

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Status
Ended
Language
JA
First aired
January 5, 1997
Last aired
December 14, 1997
Seasons
1
Episodes
50
Network
NHK

Season 1

Episodes

No episodes found for this season.

Featuring

Cast & crew

8 credited
Starring
Nobuko Miyamoto

Nobuko Miyamoto

Ken Ogata

Ken Ogata

Takaya Kamikawa

Takaya Kamikawa

Keiko Takeshita

Keiko Takeshita

Takanori Jinnai

Takanori Jinnai

Keiko Matsuzaka

Keiko Matsuzaka

Naomasa Musaka

Naomasa Musaka

Tsurutaro Kataoka

Tsurutaro Kataoka

Creative team
Written by
Makiko Uchidate
Makiko Uchidate

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