Yae no Sakura
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Yae no Sakura
Promotional poster
Genre Taiga drama
Written by Mutsumi Yamamoto
Starring Haruka Ayase
Hidetoshi Nishijima
Joe Odagiri
Hiroki Hasegawa
Jun Fubuki
Yutaka Matsushige
Kyōko Hasegawa
Tetsuji Tamayama
Gō Ayano
Shun Oguri
Meisa Kuroki
Kotaro Koizumi
Shido Nakamura
Takumi Saito
Yoshiko Miyazaki
Katsuhisa Namase
Kumiko Akiyoshi
Masaya Kato
Masahiro Takashima
Kōji Kikkawa
Ichikawa Somegorō VII
Izumi Inamori
Takashi Sorimachi
Eiji Okuda
Hiroaki Murakami
Hiroki Matsukata
Toshiyuki Nishida
Narrated by Mitsuko Kusabue
Theme music composer Ryuichi Sakamoto
Composer(s) Nobuyuki Nakajima
Country of origin Japan
Original language(s) Japanese
No. of episodes 50
Production
Running time 48 x 45 minutes
1 x 75 minutes
1 x 60 minutes
Release
Original network NHK
Original release January 6 –
December 15, 2013
External links
Website
Yae no Sakura (八重の桜 Yae's Sakura) is a 2013 Japanese television series. It is the
52nd NHK taiga drama. The story focuses on Niijima Yae, who is portrayed by Haruka Ayase.[1] Yae
is a strong believer in women's rights and the story follows her journey in Japan, during the time it is
opened up to Western ideas.
Contents
1Cast
2Reception
3References
4External links
Cast[edit]
Haruka Ayase as Niijima Yae
o Rio Suzuki as childhood Yae
Her family
Hiroki Hasegawa as Kawasaki Shonosuke
Joe Odagiri as Joseph Hardy Neesima
Hidetoshi Nishijima as Yamamoto Kakuma
Jun Fubuki as Yamamoto Saku
Yutaka Matsushige as Yamamoto Gonpachi
Kyōko Hasegawa as Higuchi Ura
Mitsuki Tanimura as Oda Tokie
Masahiro Toda as Tokuzō
Aizu Domain
Gō Ayano as Matsudaira Katamori
Izumi Inamori as Matsudaira Teru
Toshiyuki Nishida as Saigō Tanomo
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
Tokugawa shogunate
Kotaro Koizumi as Tokugawa Yoshinobu
Takaaki Enoki as Ii Naosuke
Shinsengumi
Yū Kamio as Kondō Isami
Jun Murakami as Hijikata Toshizō
Kenji Furuya as Saitō Hajime
Government of Meiji
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
Chōshū Domain
Shun Oguri as Yoshida Shōin
Takamasa Suga as Kusaka Genzui
Hitoshi Ozawa as Sera Shūzō
Satsuma Domain
Koji Kikkawa as Saigō Takamori
Yoichi Hayashi as Shimazu Nariakira
Others
Hiroaki Murakami as Matsudaira Yoshinaga
Eiji Okuda as Sakuma Shōzan
Goro Ibuki as Tokugawa Nariaki
Kyūsaku Shimada as Maki Yasuomi
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
Reception[edit]
In 2014, the series was nominated for the International Emmy Award for best drama series.
