Aoi (TV series)

Plot

Cast

Tokugawa Shoguns

• Masahiko Tsugawa as Tokugawa Ieyasu - the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate
• Toshiyuki Nishida as Tokugawa Hidetada - the second shogun
• Onoe Tatsunosuke II as Tokugawa Iemitsu - the third shogun
• *Takayuki Yamada as young Iemitsu

  Tokugawa clan

• Shima Iwashita as Ogō - wife of Hidetada
• Isuzu Yamada as Odai no kata - mother of Ieyasu
• Kyōko Mitsubayashi as Acha no Tsubone
• Minako Osanai as Oman no Kata
• Michiko Godai as Lady Chaa
• Kirin Kiki as Lady Kasuga
• Miki Sakai as Tokugawa Masako
• Yoko Moriguchi as Okaji no Kata
• Nanako Ōkōchi as Senhime
• *Marika Matsumoto as young Senhime
• Fujita Okamoto as Yūki Hideyasu
• Hiroyuki Sakamoto as Matsudaira Tadateru
• Lie Katō as Irohahime
• Hayato Ōshiba as Tokugawa Yorifusa
• Manabu Hamada as Hoshina Masayuki
• Asumi Nakada as Haruhime
• Yukie Nakama as Oraku
• Gen Hongō as Tokugawa Yorinobu
• Yūtarō Yamamoto as Nagatomimaru
• Hideyuki Akabane as Tokugawa Yoshinao
• *Ryūnosuke Kamiki as Gorōtamaru
• Tomoyo Kurosawa as Ichihime

  [Fudai daimyo]

• Shigeru Kōyama as Honda Masanobu
• Ikkei Watanabe as Honda Masazumi - the eldest son of Masanobu
• Joe Shishido as Honda Tadakatsu - one of the Shitennō
• Hiroshi Katsuno as Ii Naomasa - one of the Shitennō
• Kōji Shimizu as Sakakibara Yasumasa - one of the Shitennō
• Taro Ishida as Ōkubo Tadachika
• Takashi Sasano as Torii Mototada
• Ryūzō Hayashi as Doi Toshikatsu
• Mizuho Suzuki as Itakura Katsushige
• Masaki Terasoma as Itakura Shigemasa
• Hiroshi Iwasaki as Sakai Tadayo
• Katsumi Chō as Naitō Kiyonari
• Saburo Ishikura as Aoyama Tadatoshi

  Toyotomi

• Onoe Kikunosuke V as Toyotomi Hideyori
• Mayumi Ogawa as Yodo-dono - the second wife of Hideyoshi
• *Mei Kurokawa as Cha-cha
• Mitsuko Kusabue as Kōdai-in - the first wife of Hideyoshi
• Mayuko Fukuda as Yuihime - the daughter of Hideyori
• Nenji Kobayashi as Katagiri Katsumoto
• Naoki Hosaka as Ōno Harunaga
• Shingo Hiramatsu as Oda Uraku
• Teruhiko Saigō as Sanada Yukimura
• Hiroshi Hatanaka as Kimura Shigenari
• Takayuki Sugō as Konishi Yukinaga
• Yoshisada Sakaguchi as Nakamura Kazu'uji

  [Council of Five Elders]

• Kazuo Kitamura as Maeda Toshiie
• Ken Utsui as Mōri Terumoto
• Teruyuki Kagawa as Ukita Hideie
• Tsunehiko Kamijō as Uesugi Kagekatsu

  [Go-Bugyō]

• Tōru Emori as Ishida Mitsunari
• Shinichiro Mikami as Asano Nagamasa
• Kei Satō as Mashita Nagamori
• Toshio Kurosawa as Natsuka Masaie
• Hiroshi Kamiyama as Maeda Gen'i

  Ishida family

• Masane Tsukayama as Ishida Masazumi
• Taketoshi Naito as Ishida Masatsugu
• Keiko Takahashi as Orin - wife of Mitsunari
• Isao Natsuyagi as Shima Sakon

  Eastern Army

• Ryō Tamura as Tōdō Takatora
• Shinji Yamashita as Kuroda Nagamasa
• Shunsuke Kariya as Katō Kiyomasa
• Keizō Kanie as Fukushima Masanori
• Satoru Saitō as Yamauchi Kazutoyo
• Kei Suma as Date Masamune
• Hatsunori Hasegawa as Maeda Toshinaga
• Tsutomu Isobe as Ikeda Terumasa
• Hideaki Tezuka as Tsuda Shigemoto
• Hiroyuki Watanabe as Asano Yoshinaga
• Shirō Saitō as Tanaka Yoshimasa
• Taishi Horikoshi as Sanada Nobuyuki
• Naoki Takemura as Miyamoto Musashi

  Western Army

• Toshiyuki Hosokawa as Ōtani Yoshitsugu
• Akaji Maro as Shimazu Yoshihiro
• Yūichirō Yamaguchi as Shimazu Toyohisa
• Kazuma Suzuki as Kobayakawa Hideaki
• Ichirō Zaitsu as Ankokuji Ekei
• Osami Nabe as Kikkawa Hiroie
• Shinya Ōwada as Tachibana Muneshige

  Kyōgoku

• Akira Onodera as Kyōgoku Takatsugu
• Kuriko Namino as Jōkō-in

  Hosokawa

• Isao Sasaki as Hosokawa Tadaoki
• Kyōka Suzuki as Hosokawa Gracia
• Shun Oguri as Hosokawa Tadatoshi

  Imperial House

• Hiroyuki Kinoshita as Emperor Go-Yōzei
• Yasumasa Ōba as Emperor Go-Mizunoo
• Minori Terada as Nijō Akizane
• Junpei Morita as Sanjōnishi Sane'eda
• Noriko Ogawa as Sadako
• *Aki Maeda as young Sadako
• Norihiro Inoue as Kajūji Mitsutoyo
• Kazutoyo Yoshimi as Karasumaru Mitsuhiro

  Others

• Nakamura Baijaku II as Tokugawa Mitsukuni, a.k.a. Mito Kōmon
• Kazuyo Asari as Sassa Sukesaburō, a.k.a. Suke-san
• Machiko Washio as Asaka Tanpaku, a.k.a. Kaku-san
• Terence O'Brien as William Adams, a.k.a. Miura Anjin
• Tim Knowles as Richard Cocks
• Yatsuko Tan'ami as Kenshō-in
• Natsuko Migiwa as Maeda Matsu
• Mikio Shimizu as Oda Nobukatsu
• Noriko Shōji as a reporter
• San'yūtei Rakutarō
• Ryunosuke Kaneda as Tenkai
• Hiroshi Ōkōchi as Konchiin Sūden

  Staff

• Music : Taro Iwashiro
• Historical research : Shinzaburō Ōishi
• Architectural research : Kiyoshi Hirai
• Clothing research : Kiyoko Koizumi
• Action director : Kunishirō Hayashi

  TV schedule