Akō Rōshi (赤穂浪士) is a 1964 Japanese television series. It is the 2nd NHK taiga drama.
The viewership rating was well over 30%, and the episode where the raid was broadcast had a viewership rating of 53.0%. It also set the record for the highest viewership rating in the history of taiga dramas. This record has not yet been broken as of 2021. The average audience rating for all episodes is 31.9%, making it the 4th of all-time (as of 2019).
A scene from episode 7 and the full footage of episode 47 still remain today, the latter of which garnered the highest viewership rating.
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Story
Akō Rōshi deals with the Edo period. Based on Jirō Osaragi's novels of the same title.
It depicts the stories of the Forty-seven rōnin with Ōishi Kuranosuke as the main lead.
Cast
Kazuo Hasegawa as Ōishi Kuranosuke
Shinsuke Ashida as Kobayashi Heihichi
Chikage Awashima as Osen
Takahiro Tamura as Takada Gunbei
Masakazu Tamura
Jukichi Uno
Katsuo Nakamura as Ōishi Chikara
Takashi Shimura as Onodera Junai
Yoichi Hayashi as Hotta Yayato
Kyoko Kishida as Aguri
Kei Taguchi as Kayano Wasuke
Kazuo Funaki as Yatō Emoshichi
Takuya Fujioka as Ōishi Sezaemon
Ichiro Sugai as Ono Kurobei
Rokkō Toura as Takebayashi Takashige
Masato Yamanouchi as Uesugi Tsunanori
Morita Kan'ya XIV as Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
Jun Tazaki
Junzaburō Ban as Maruoka Bokuan
Akira Kume as Wakizaka Awaji no Kami
Fubuki Koshiji as Ukiyo daou
Kō Nishimura as Aizawa Shinbei
Ryūtarō Ōtomo as Horiuchi
Kanjūrō Arashi as Hosokawa Echu no Kami
Osamu Takizawa as Kira Kōzuke no suke
Isuzu Yamada as Ōishi Riku