Haru no Sakamichi (春の坂道) is a 1971 Japanese television series. It is the ninth NHK taiga drama.
Average viewership rating: 21.7%, with highest rating peaking at 27.5%. No footage in full color is said to still exist, and only the 52nd episode still remains in black and white due to recording technology at the time.
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Story
Haru no Sakamichi deals with the late Sengoku period to early Edo period. It is based on Sōhachi Yamaoka's novel by the same title.
The story chronicles the life of Yagyū Munenori, a daimyo and swordsman under Tokugawa Ieyasu during the Sengoku and Edo periods of Japanese history.
Production
Production Credits
Original story – Sōhachi Yamaoka
Music – Akira Miyoshi
Cast
Yagyū Clan
Nakamura Kinnosuke as Yagyū Munenori
Chitose Kobayashi as Orin
Rumi Matsumoto as Karasuma Junko
Hiroshi Akutagawa as Yagyū Munetoshi
Yoshio Harada as Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi
Ryo Tamura as Yagyū Samon
Koji Shimizu as Yagyū Munefuyu
Tokugawa Clan
So Yamamura as Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tetsuya Aoyama as Tokugawa Hidetada
Ichikawa Ebizō X as Tokugawa Iemitsu
Yoko Tsukasa as Lady Kasuga
Tetsuo Ishidate as Matsudaira Tadateru
Kazuo Funaki as Tokugawa Tadanaga
Isao Sasaki as Matsudaira Tadanao
Toyotomi Clan
Shikaku Nakamura as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Tomoko Naraoka as Nene
Kyōko Kishida as Yodo-dono
Kataoka Takao as Toyotomi Hideyori
Atsuo Nakamura as Ishida Mitsunari
Kazuo Kitamura as Shima Sakon
Kōjirō Kusanagi as Konishi Yukinaga
Junshi Shimada as Kimura Shigenari
Masao Shimizu as Asano Nagamasa
Etsushi Takahashi as Kuroda Nagamasa
Shōgo Shimada as Sanada Yukimura
Masakazu Tamura as Fuwa Bansaku
Yoshio Tsuchiya as Ōtani Yoshitsugu
Others
Takahiro Tamura as Takuan Sōhō
Hideki Takahashi as Sakazaki Naomori
Shun Oide as Matsudaira Nobutsuna
Tappie Shimokawa
Go Wakabayashi as Araki Mataemon
Akiji Kobayashi as Abe Shigetsugu
Mitsuko Baisho as Osame
Tōru Emori as Doi Toshikatsu
Takashi Shimura as Aoyama Tadatoshi
Isamu Nagato as Yosa
Isao Hashizume as Tawara Harunosuke