Hana no Shōgai (花の生涯) is a 1963 Japanese television series. It is the 1st NHK taiga drama.
The average viewership rating was 20.2%, with a peak of 32.3%.
Only an almost complete copy of episode 1 and fragments of Episode 38 still exist, all other footage is said to be lost according to NHK. In February 2023, to commemorate the 60th anniversary, the first episode was re-aired in colour using AI technology.
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Story
Hana no Shōgai deals with the Bakumatsu at the end of the Edo period. Based on Funahashi Seiichi's novels of the same title.
The story chronicles the life of Ii Naosuke up to the Sakuradamon Incident in 1860.
Cast
Onoe Shoroku II as Ii Naosuke
Chikage Awashima as Murayama Taka
Kaoru Yachigusa as Masako no Kata
Keiji Sada as Nagano Shuzen
Nakamura Shikaku II
Kyōko Kagawa as Akiyama Shizu
Shinsuke Ashida as Takemoto
Masakazu Tamura as Tada Tatewaki
Ko Nishimura as Tada Ichiro
Asao Koike as Minegishi Ryunosuke
Isamu Nagato as Kanroku
Masami Shimojō as Miura Hokuan
Kazuo Kitamura as Utsuki Kageyoshi
Akira Kume as Townsend Harris
Koji Ishizaka
Takeshi Katō as Kaneko Magojiro
Hisano Yamaoka as Kurosawa Tokiko
Yukiji Asaoka as Okichi
Chikao Ohtsuka as Rokuzo
Hiroyuki Nagato as Tsurumatsu
Minoru Uchida as Kurosawa Chizaburo
Jun Tatara as Onoe Kotaro
Tomoko Naraoka as Osei
Masumi Okada as Henry Heusken
Isao Yamagata as Arimura Jizaemon
Kanjūrō Arashi as Tokugawa Nariaki
Noboru Nakaya