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J-Drama: 篤姫 (Atsu-hime)
Usually the women in the taiga dramas are in the background (story wise) unless their name is in the title like Toshiie to Matsu. I think the next taiga will be interesting to watch for someone like me who enjoys watching taiga dramas in general but you probably won't like it, Ralph. More than likely Masami Nagasawa will be someone's wife and will probably not be in all the episodes.
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Re: J-Drama: 篤姫 (Atsu-hime)
NHK Taiga Drama News
2010 NHK Taiga drama is Ryomaden
June 6, 2008
NHK has announced that its taiga drama for 2010 will be Ryomaden (龍馬伝) , a story based on the life of Sakamoto Ryoma. The script is an original by screenwriter Yasushi Fukuda, who currently writes for the Takuya Kimura-starring drama series CHANGE. No cast members have been announced yet.
Source: Sankei Sports | Tokyograph
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2009 - 2011 Special Taiga Drama
Saka no Ueno Kumo (坂の上の雲) Clouds Over The Hill
NHK announcement (Japanese)
DramaWiki: Saka no Ueno Kumo
Upcoming series. Originally set for a 2006 broadcast, but the scriptwriter of the series committed suicide, causing a delay in production. This will be the first Taiga Drama to stagger its airing throughout three years. (Fall 2009 - Fall 2011)
Details
* Title: 坂の上の雲
* Title (romaji): Saka no Ue no Kumo
* Also known as: Clouds Over the Hill
* Format: Renzoku
* Genre: Period drama
* Episodes: 13 (90 mins. each)
* Broadcast network: NHK
* Broadcast period: Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011
Synopsis
The story takes place during Japan's tumultuous 19th century Meiji Period and is told through the military officers and brothers, Akiyama Yoshifuru and Akiyama Saneyuki and the poet Masaoka Shiki who used their ingenuity to fight an uphill battle during the Russo-Japanese War.
Cast
* Motoki Masahiro as Akiyama Saneyuki
* Kobayashi Ren
* Abe Hiroshi as Akiyama Yoshifuru
* Someya Shota (染谷将太)
* Tanaka Shohei (田中祥平)
* Kagawa Teruyuki as Masaoka Shiki
* Sasano Takato (ささの貴斗)
* Kanno Miho as Masaoka Ritsu
* Yoshida Riko
* Ozawa Yukiyoshi as Natsume Soseki
* Ito Shiro as Akiyama Hisayuki
* Take****a Keiko as Akiyama Tadashi
* Matsu Takako as Sakuma Tami
* Kato Go (加藤剛) as Ito Hirobumi
* Fujimoto Takahiro (藤本隆宏) as Takeo Hirose
* Marina Aleksandra (マリーナ・アレクサンドラ) as Ariadna
* Fyodorov (ヒョードロフ) as Nicholas II of Russia
* Joe Bunrin (ジョ・ブンリン) as Ding Ruchang
* Watari Tetsuya as Togo Heihachiro
* Miyauchi Atsushi (宮内敦士) as Fujii Shigeta
* Kataoka Tsurutaro as Yashiro Rokuro
* Shinjitsu Ichiro (真実一路) as Ohara Kanzan
* Kikuchi Masayuki (菊地真之)
* Hinokio Kenta (檜尾健太)
Comments from NHK Corporate:
(Comment by Toyohiko Harada)
NHK is planning to air a 13-part drama series titled Saka no Ue no Kumo (Clouds at the Top of the Slope) over a three-year period from the autumn of 2009. The entire script for all 13 episodes has now been finished and location shooting inside Japan is scheduled to start in November. The filming will take more than three years, finishing in 2010. Location shooting in Russia of scenes in which Czar Nicholas II appears will start at the Ekaterina Palace in St. Petersburg in late January next year. That will be followed by various other location shoots in Japan and China and also studio shooting. The whole of next year will be devoted to shooting the first five episodes, which together comprise Part I and will be shown in the autumn of 2009.
(Comment by Hidemi Hyuga)
Saka no Ue no Kumo is a special drama series to reflect on the 150 years that have passed since Japan’s opening to Western countries, in the hope of providing food for thought for present day Japanese now seeking to chart the future.
(Comment by Yoshiki Nishimura, Executive Director-Producer for the Saka no Ue no Kumo Project)
The shooting started last November as the first step of the three-year-long production period. The production work is advancing smoothly. About one sixth of the shooting has been finished so far. We shot in St. Petersburg for more than two weeks in the second half of January, covering the scenes of a meeting between the Russian Czar, Nicolai II and Japan’s first Prime Minister, Hirobumi Ito (performed by Go Kato), at the Ekaterina Palace, which is now a designated World Heritage site. They met to discuss ways to avert war. The first location shooting inside Japan was conducted in Hiroshima on March 23, and we will be going to various other parts of the country as well. The second round of the overseas shooting is scheduled this autumn in Russia, China and Europe.
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6/6/2008, 2:42 pm
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J-Drama: 篤姫 (Atsu-hime)
Thank you so much for the info, Bubu! It looks like we will have a lot to look forward to watching. Ryoma Sakamoto is such a facinating person, a man truly ahead of his time.
Hopefully UTB will air the special taiga drama.
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6/6/2008, 4:31 pm
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The role of Sakamoto Ryoma sounds like a natural for Takuya Kimura. He is an accomplished swordsman and has played the samurai role a few times. He is totally a Japanese entity when he is in character for a samurai. Also he is a forward looking person and is quite Western in his outlook despite being so Japanese. I would hope to be around if they give that role to him.
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6/7/2008, 12:00 pm
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Re: J-Drama: 篤姫 (Atsu-hime)
I realy enjoyed the last episode of Atsuhime. It seems that Atsume's father had such good feelings for her well being. He knows her heart was in Satsuma and he does his best to let her see friends who come to Edo.
How sad that Naogoro is going away from Edo which has been his goal for so long. I also don't understand why even if he becomes adopted into the new clan...why does he have to marry the sister?? Doesn't he become her new brother with this change???
I think the sister of the sensei likes Naogoro very much, but a marriage is not going to be easy for him.
One last thing. this has been bothering me for awhile but I have to say that Naogoro in this last episode had the scene with Atsuhime playing Go etc. His EARS are driving me crasy. I can't concentrate on him in a close up. I really think he should have his ears pinned back surgically. The samurai hairstyle makes his ears stand out so much. He is such a good actor and his face is charming and so expressive. The ears should be changed.
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6/8/2008, 3:14 pm
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I was struck with how similar are the life paths of both Okatsu and Naogoro. (Maybe it was the matching amulets the lord gave at their births.) Both are living lives of self-sacrifice, having their life courses determined by someone else—the same someone else, at that!
Naogoro having to marry Ochika seems rather reasonable to me. Marriages were mostly arranged by higher ups, it seems. If Naogoro waited, he would probably never marry and he must carry on the new family line he's being adopted into. At least Ochika is a good prospect who cares for Naogoro. Their personalities seem similarly matched. (Who could he marry that would replace Okatsu?) But it does strike me as odd that he's going to be marrying his "sister." Was that kosher in that culture?
Speaking of ears... My best friend and I had a discussion not long ago about the difference in standards of facial beauty between European/Westerners and Asians (she's Chinese). She said first comes flawless complexion and second comes ears. Maybe to the Japanese, Naogoro has wonderful ears! If they were that detracting to them, it seems they would do something about it. If he were an American, probably he would have had ear surgery done as a child.
But I must admit for some reason Naogoro's ears seemed to be more prominent than in previous episodes. Having been raised an American, I am more sensitized to his ears than Asians probably are. I don't think ears rank at all on the Western scale of beauty as a positive. As long as they aren't that noticeable, we're okay with them, it seems.
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