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From 2008 to 2009, the NHK World show Samurai Spirit was created and produced to fit his personality and the show has won several international prizes for best sports educational shows and best sports documentary. As of 2013, he is co-presenter of the NHK World television show Imagine-nation, with Chiaki Horan. [20]
On April 19, 2018, NHK announced Awaiting Kirin as its 59th taiga drama, starring Hiroki Hasegawa as Akechi Mitsuhide, a samurai and general during the Sengoku period, with Shunsaku Ikehata as writer. [7] Ikehata previously wrote the 29th taiga drama, Taiheiki (1991). The drama aims to shed light on the first half of Akechi's life, of which ...
Segodon (西郷どん, Mr. Saigō in Kagoshima dialect [1]) is a 2018 Japanese historical drama television series and the 57th NHK taiga drama. [2] It stars Ryohei Suzuki as Saigō Takamori , who has been dubbed the last true samurai .
Taiga drama (Japanese: 大河ドラマ, Hepburn: Taiga dorama, "Big River Drama") is the name NHK gives to the annual year-long historical drama television series it broadcasts in Japan. Beginning in 1963 with the black-and-white Hana no Shōgai , starring kabuki actor Onoe Shoroku II and Awashima Chikage, the network regularly hires different ...
In the same year, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation prepared a film about the first samurai martial arts training class in Iran and then broadcast it on Jan. 6th, 1983. Simultaneously Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) filmed a documentary showing martial arts exercises demonstrated by Mehdizadeh.
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Sanada Maru (真田丸) is a 2016 Japanese historical drama television series and the 55th NHK taiga drama. [1] The series is named after the Sanada Maru, a fortification defended by Sanada during the Siege of Osaka in 1615. Written by Kōki Mitani, it stars Masato Sakai as the samurai Sanada Nobushige. It premiered on January 10, 2016 and ...
He received major recognition when he played the last shogun Yoshinobu Tokugawa in the NHK taiga drama Atsuhime. He has appeared in several films of Takashi Miike, including Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai, Ace Attorney, [3] and Aku no Kyoten. [4] He plays Natsuka Masaie in the big-budget film Nobou's Castle.