What Will You Do, Ieyasu?
| What Will You Do, Ieyasu? | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Ryota Kosawa |
| Directed by | Naoki Murahashi and others |
| Starring |
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| Narrated by | Shinobu Terajima |
| Composer | Hibiki Inamoto |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language | Japanese |
| No. of episodes | 48 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | NHK |
| Release | January 8 – December 17, 2023 |
What Will You Do, Ieyasu? (どうする家康, Dousuru Ieyasu, What Would You Do, Ieyasu?[1])[2] is a Japanese historical drama television series starring Jun Matsumoto as Tokugawa Ieyasu.[3][4] The series is the 62nd NHK taiga drama.[5][6]
Cast[edit]
Starring role[edit]
- Jun Matsumoto as Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Waku Kawaguchi as Matsudaira Takechiyo (young Ieyasu)
Tokugawa clan[edit]
- Kasumi Arimura as Sena, Ieyasu's first wife
- Seiko Utsumi as Sena's double
- Nanako Matsushima as Odai no Kata, Ieyasu's mother
- Kisuke Iida as Matsudaira Hirotada, Ieyasu's father
- Kanata Hosoda as Matsudaira Nobuyasu
- Mahoro Terajima as Takechiyo (young Nobuyasu)
- Shiori Kubo (Nogizaka46) as Gotoku
- Natsuki Matsuoka as young Gotoku
- Ami Touma as Kamehime
- Honoka Yoshida as young Kamehime
- Alice Hirose as Lady Oai
- Yūtarō Iisaku as Saigō Yoshikatsu
- Win Morisaki as Tokugawa Hidetada
- Rihito Shigematsu as Chōmaru (young Hidetada)
- Maiko as Gō
- Yūka as young Gō
- Yunho as Takechiyo (young Tokugawa Iemitsu)
- Aoto Ichimura as Fukumatsu (young Matsudaira Tadayoshi)
- Takumi Kizu as Yūki Hideyasu
- Ryūsei Iwata as Ogii (young Hideyasu)
- Yutaka Matsushige as Ishikawa Kazumasa
- Tae Kimura as Nabe, Kazumasa's wife
- The Four Heavenly Kings of the Tokugawa
- Kenichi Matsuyama as Honda Masanobu
- Yūki Inoue as Honda Masazumi
- Issey Ogata as Torii Tadayoshi
- Takuma Oto'o as Torii Mototada
- Kotone Furukawa as Mochizuki Chiyo, a Kunoichi and a retainer of Takeda Clan, who later became Mototada's second wife
- Shinya Kote as Ōkubo Tadayo
- Akihito Yoshiie as Ōkubo Tadamasu
- Dai Okabe (Hanako) as Hiraiwa Chikayoshi
- Takayuki Yamada as Hattori Hanzō
- Masahiro Kōmoto as Natsume Yoshinobu, a.k.a. Natsume Hirotsugu
- Kazuki Namioka as Honda Tadazane
- Subaru Kimura as Watanabe Moritsuna
- Tetsuya Chiba as Ōnezumi
- Marika Matsumoto as Onna-ōnezumi
- Kazuo Kawabata as Anaguma
- Tsubaki Nekoze as Toyo
- Kana Kita as Oyō
- Asahi Seino as Ofū
- Shuri Nakamura as Miyo
- Rena Matsui as Oman
- Katsuya Maiguma as Ōoka Yashirō
- Kenta Nitta as Ban Yoshichirō
- Takato Yonemoto as Yamada Hachizō
- Wakana Matsumoto as Lady Acha
- Tatsumasa Murasame as William Adams, a.k.a. Miura Anjin
- Takeshi Nadagi as Ina Tadatsugu
- Ryōsei Tayama as Konchi'in Sūden
- Tetsuo (Waraimeshi) as Hayashi Razan
- Maiko Itō
- Shinobu Terajima as Lady Kasuga/narrator
- Shun Oguri as Nankōbō Tenkai
Imagawa clan[edit]
- Mansai Nomura as Imagawa Yoshimoto. He was like a father to Ieyasu.
- Junpei Mizobata as Imagawa Ujizane
- Kuon Kazui as Tatsuō-maru (young Ujizane)
- Mirai Shida as Ito
- Atsuro Watabe as Sekiguchi Ujizumi
- Miki Maya as Tomoe
- Hana Toyoshima as Tane
- Nagisa Sekimizu as Otazu
- Gōta Watabe as Iio Tsuratatsu
- Tōru Nomaguchi as Udono Nagateru
- Uta Yorikawa as Udono Ujinaga
- Sera Ishida as Udono Ujitsugu
- Hiroyuki Amano as Yamada Shin'emon
- Kenichi Yajima as Kira Yoshiakira
- Miou Tanaka as Okabe Motonobu
Oda clan[edit]
- Junichi Okada as Oda Nobunaga
- Kira Miura as young Nobunaga
- Hiroshi Fujioka as Oda Nobuhide, Nobunaga's father
- Yoshi Sakou as Akechi Mitsuhide
- Mitsuo Yoshihara as Shibata Katsuie
- Tatekawa Danshun as Sakuma Nobumori
- Satoshi Tokushige as Ikeda Tsuneoki
- Kenta Hamano as Oda Nobukatsu
- Tomohiro Yoshida as Oda Nobutaka
- Akira Fukuzawa as Niwa Nagahide
- Yu Shirota as Mori Nagayoshi
- Riku Ōnishi as Mori Ran, a.k.a. Mori Ranmaru
- Nozomi Makino as Hirate Masahide
- Aoi Hamada as Sanbōshi
Toyotomi clan[edit]
- Tsuyoshi Muro as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- Emi Wakui as Nene
- Keiko Kitagawa as Yodo-dono and her mother Oichi
- Tamaki Shiratori as Chacha (young Yodo-dono)
- Yūwa Kamimura as young Oichi
- Ryūto Sakuma (HiHi Jets) as Toyotomi Hideyori
- Nanoka Hara as Senhime
- Atsuko Takahata as Naka
- Ryuta Sato as Toyotomi Hidenaga
- Maho Yamada as Asahi
- Nakamura Shichinosuke II as Ishida Mitsunari
- Yasushi Fuchikami as Katō Kiyomasa
- Motoki Fukami as Fukushima Masanori
- Shugo Oshinari as Ōtani Yoshitsugu
- Mansaku Ikeuchi as Konishi Yukinaga
- Tsutomu Takahashi as Shima Sakon
- Shinnosuke Abe as Kuroda Nagamasa
- Kozo Takeda as Hachisuka Iemasa
- Rin Amikawa as Tōdō Takatora
- Shin'ya Yamamaru as Yamauchi Kazutoyo
- Takayuki Hamatsu as Asano Nagamasa
- Seminosuke Murasugi as Maeda Gen'i
- Yōhei Kumabe as Mashita Nagamori
- Ikuma Nagatomo as Natsuka Masaie
- Denden as Saishō Jōtai
- Masato Yamashita as Toyotomi Hidetsugu
- Yoshito Kobashigawa as Hori Hidemasa
- Riku Kashima as Kobayakawa Hideaki
- Jun'ya Kawashima as Katagiri Katsumoto
- Tetsuji Tamayama as Ōno Harunaga
- Hacizō Hino as Chōsokabe Morichika
- Takuma Sugawara as Mōri Yoshimasa, a.k.a. Mōri Katsunaga
- Ryūhei Higashiyama as Ōtani Yoshikatsu
- Ken Kurahara as Gotō Matabei
- Hisato Kojima as Akashi Teruzumi
- Shinobu Otake as Ōkurakyō no Tsubone
Council of Five Elders (Go-Tairō)[edit]
- Shin Takuma as Maeda Toshiie
- Mitsuru Fukikoshi as Mōri Terumoto
- Kanji Tsuda as Uesugi Kagekatsu
- Shuntaro Yanagi as Ukita Hideie
Takeda clan[edit]
- Hiroshi Abe as Takeda Shingen
- Gordon Maeda as Takeda Katsuyori
- Satoshi Hashimoto as Yamagata Masakage
- Seiichi Tanabe as Anayama Baisetsu
Sanada clan[edit]
- Kōichi Satō as Sanada Masayuki
- Kaito Yoshimura as Sanada Nobuyuki
- Yui Narumi as Ina, Nobuyuki's wife and Honda Tadakatsu's daughter
- Wataru Hyuga as Sanada Nobushige, later known as Sanada "Saemonosuke" Yukimura
Others[edit]
- Kōtarō Satomi as Tōyo-shōnin
- Ichikawa Udanji III as Kūsei-shōnin
- Arata Furuta as Ashikaga Yoshiaki, the final shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate
- Yūsuke Ōnuki as Azai Nagamasa
- Anne Suzuki as Hatsu
- Rin Furukawa as young Hatsu
- Aoi Itō as Azuki
- Susumu Terajima as Mizuno Nobumoto
- Lily Franky as Hisamatsu Toshikatsu
- Kento Nagao (Naniwa Danshi) as Hisamatsu Katsutoshi
- Akihiro Kakuta (Tokyo 03) as Matsudaira Masahisa
- Nakamura Kankurō VI as Chaya Shirōjirō Kiyonobu and his son Kiyotada
- Jin Shirasu as Okudaira Nobumasa
- Taiiku Okazaki as Torii Suneemon
- Manami Igashira as Otama
- Ai Tenshō as Ofū
- Amane Tenshō as Orin
- Rie Shibata as an old lady selling dumplings.
- Kenji Yamagami as Tsuda Sōgyū
- Kazu Murakami as Matsui Yūkan
- Kyusaku Shimada as Momochi Tanba
- Kitarō as Tarao Mitsutoshi
- Arisa Nakajima as Ii Hiyo
- Taro Suruga as Hōjō Ujimasa
- Jun Nishiyama as Hōjō Ujinao
- Takahiro as Naoe Kanetsugu
- Tsuyoshi Hayakawa as Maeda Toshinaga
- Tomonori Mizuno as Hijikata Katsuhisa
- Kenji Inoue as Kikkawa Hiroie
TV schedule[edit]
| Episode | Title | Directed by | Original airdate | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Dousuru Okehazama" (どうする桶狭間) | Taku Katō | January 8, 2023 | 15.4% |
| 2 | "Usagi to Ookami" (兎と狼) | Naoki Murahashi | January 15, 2023 | 15.3% |
| 3 | "Mikawa Heitei-sen" (三河平定戦) | January 22, 2023 | 14.8% | |
| 4 | "Kiyosu de Dousuru!" (清須でどうする！) | January 29, 2023 | 13.9% | |
| 5 | "Sena Dakkan Sakusen" (瀬名奪還作戦) | Taku Katō | February 5, 2023 | 12.9% |
| 6 | "Zoku Sena Dakkan Sakusen" (続・瀬名奪還作戦) | Takeshi Kawakami | February 12, 2023 | 13.3% |
| 7 | "Washi no Ie" (わしの家) | Michi Ono | February 19, 2023 | 13.1% |
| 8 | "Mikawa-Ikki de Dousuru!" (三河一揆でどうする！) | Takeshi Kawakami | February 26, 2023 | 12.1% |
| 9 | "Mamorubeki Mono" (守るべきもの) | Michi Ono | March 5, 2023 | 11.8% |
| 10 | "Sokushitsu o Dousuru!" (側室をどうする！) | March 12, 2023 | 7.2%[7] | |
| 11 | "Shingen tono Mitsuyaku" (信玄との密約) | Naoki Murahashi | March 19, 2023 | 10.9% |
| 12 | "Ujizane" (氏真) | March 26, 2023 | 11.0% | |
| 13 | "Ieyasu, Miyako e Yuku" (家康、都へゆく) | Takeshi Kawakami | April 2, 2023 | 11.0% |
| 14 | "Kanegasaki de Dousuru!" (金ヶ崎でどうする！) | April 16, 2023 | 11.4% | |
| 15 | "Anegawa de Dousuru!" (姉川でどうする！) | Satoshi Tanaka | April 23, 2023 | 11.1% |
| 16 | "Shingen o Okoraseruna" (信玄を怒らせるな) | Taku Katō | April 30, 2023 | 10.7% |
| 17 | "Mikatagahara Kassen" (三方ヶ原合戦) | Michi Ono | May 7, 2023 | 10.1% |
| 18 | "Shin Mikatagahara Kassen" (真・三方ヶ原合戦) | Naoki Murahashi | May 14, 2023 | 10.9% |
| 19 | "Otetsuki shite Dousuru" (お手付きしてどうする) | Taku Katō | May 21, 2023 | 11.5% |
| 20 | "Okazaki Coup d'état" (岡崎クーデター) | Yūdai Noguchi | May 28, 2023 | 10.4% |
| 21 | "Nagashino o Sukue!" (長篠を救え！) | Takeshi Kawakami | June 4, 2023 | 10.8% |
| 22 | "Shitaragahara no Tatakai" (設楽原の戦い) | Satoshi Tanaka | June 11, 2023 | 10.8% |
| 23 | "Sena, Kakusei" (瀬名、覚醒) | Michi Ono | June 18, 2023 | 10.2% |
| 24 | "Tsukiyama e Tsudoe" (築山へ集え) | Taku Katō | June 25, 2023 | 10.0% |
| 25 | "Haruka ni Tōi Yume" (はるかに遠い夢) | Naoki Murahashi | July 2, 2023 | 10.6% |
| 26 | "Burari Fuji Yūran" (ぶらり富士遊覧) | Takeshi Kawakami | July 9, 2023 | 10.7% |
| 27 | "Azuchi-jō no Kettō" (安土城の決闘) | Taku Katō | July 16, 2023 | 10.0% |
| 28 | "Honnō-ji no Hen" (本能寺の変) | Naoki Murahashi | July 23, 2023 | 12.7% |
| 29 | "Iga o Koero!" (伊賀を越えろ！) | Takeshi Kawakami | July 30, 2023 | 11.5% |
| 30 | "Aratanaru Hasha" (新たなる覇者) | Yūdai Noguchi | August 6, 2023 | 9.4% |
| 31 | "Shijō-saidai no Kessen" (史上最大の決戦) | Satoshi Tanaka | August 13, 2023 | 10.1% |
| 32 | "Komaki-Nagakute no Gekitō" (小牧長久手の激闘) | Taku Katō | August 20, 2023 | 10.2% |
| 33 | "Uragirimono" (裏切り者) | August 27, 2023 | 10.1% | |
| 34 | "Toyotomi no Hanayome" (豊臣の花嫁) | Michi Ono | September 3, 2023 | 11.7% |
| 35 | "Yokubō no Kaibutsu" (欲望の怪物) | Naoki Murahashi | September 17, 2023 | 10.1% |
| 36 | "Oai Nikki" (於愛日記) | September 24, 2023 | 9.9% | |
| 37 | "Saraba Mikawa-kashin-dan" (さらば三河家臣団) | Takeshi Kawakami | October 1, 2023 | 10.1% |
| 38 | "Kara-iri" (唐入り) | Toki Kajiwara | October 8, 2023 | 7.4% |
| 39 | "Taikō, Kutabaru" (太閤、くたばる) | Naoki Murahashi | October 15, 2023 | 10.4% |
| 40 | "Tenkabito Ieyasu" (天下人家康) | Yūdai Noguchi | October 22, 2023 | 11.1% |
| 41 | "Gyakushū no Mitsunari" (逆襲の三成) | Satoshi Tanaka | October 29, 2023 | 10.1% |
| 42 | "Tenka Wakeme" (天下分け目) | Takeshi Kawakami | November 5, 2023 | 10.0% |
| 43 | "Sekigahara no Tatakai" (関ヶ原の戦い) | Toki Kajiwara | November 12, 2023 | 11.9% |
| 44 | "Tokugawa-Bakufu Tanjō" (徳川幕府誕生) | Naoki Murahashi | November 19, 2023 | 11.0% |
| 45 | "Futari no Prince" (二人のプリンス) | Satoshi Tanaka | November 26, 2023 | 11.6% |
| 46 | "Ōsaka no Jin" (大坂の陣) | Shūsuke Nakamura | December 3, 2023 | 11.6% |
| 47 | "Ranse no Bōrei" (乱世の亡霊) | Takeshi Kawakami | December 10, 2023 | 11.0% |
| 48 | "Kami no Kimi e" (神の君へ) | Naoki Murahashi | December 17, 2023 | 12.3% |
| Average rating 11.2% - Rating is based on Japanese Video Research (Kantō region).[8] | ||||
Omnibus[edit]
| Episode | Title | Original airdate | Original airtime |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Hajimari no Toki" (始まりのとき) | December 29, 2023 | 13:05 - 14:14 |
| 2 | "Shiren no Toki" (試練のとき) | 14:14 - 15:24 | |
| 3 | "Yakudō no Toki" (躍動のとき) | 15:29 - 16:39 | |
| 4 | "Kakugo no Toki" (覚悟のとき) | 16:39 - 17:49 |
References[edit]
- ^ "Historical Drama "What Would You Do, Ieyasu?"". Japan International Broadcasting Inc. Archived from the original on 8 April 2023. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
- ^ "What will you do, Ieyasu?". NHK Enterprises. Retrieved December 1, 2022.
- ^ "Japan pop group Arashi's Jun Matsumoto cast as lead for 2023 NHK drama". Kyodo News. Retrieved December 1, 2022.
- ^ "2023年 大河ドラマ「どうする家康」主演は松本潤さん！". NHK. January 19, 2021. Retrieved July 13, 2022.
- ^ "松本潤、2023年大河ドラマの主役に決定 『どうする家康』脚本は古沢良太氏". Oricon. January 19, 2021. Retrieved July 13, 2022.
- ^ "どうする家康". TV drama database. Retrieved December 1, 2022.
- ^ "NHK大河「どうする家康」第10話視聴率7・2％ WBC裏で前回から4・6Pダウンで1ケタ台". Sports Hochi. Retrieved March 13, 2023.
- ^ "『どうする家康』最終回12.3% 全48回平均は11.2%". Oricon. Retrieved December 18, 2023.
External links[edit]
Categories:
- 2023 Japanese television series debuts
- 2023 Japanese television series endings
- Taiga drama
- Cultural depictions of Akechi Mitsuhide
- Cultural depictions of Hattori Hanzō
- Cultural depictions of Oda Nobunaga
- Cultural depictions of Sanada clan
- Cultural depictions of Takeda Shingen
- Cultural depictions of Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Cultural depictions of Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- Television series set in the 16th century
- Television series set in the 17th century