Taigadrama

Taigadrama(Japanese:Sông lớn ドラマ,Hepburn:Taiga dorama,"Big River Drama" )is the nameNHKgives to the annual year-longhistorical dramatelevision series it broadcasts inJapan.Beginning in 1963 with the black-and-whiteHana no Shōgai,starringkabukiactorOnoe Shoroku IIand Awashima Chikage, the network regularly hires different writers, directors, and other creative staff for each taiga drama. The 45-minute show airs on theNHK General TVnetwork every Sunday at 8:00pm, with rebroadcasts on Saturdays at 1:05pm. NHK BS, NHK BS Premium 4K andNHK World Premiumbroadcasts are also available.

Taiga dramas are very costly to produce.The usual procedure of a taiga drama production would have one-third of the total number of scripts finished before shooting begins. Afterwards, audience reception is taken into account as the rest of the series is written.Many times, the dramas are adapted from a novel (e.g.Fūrin Kazanis based onThe Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan). Though taiga dramas have been regarded by Japanese viewers as the most prestigious among dramas in Japan, viewership ratings have considerably declined in recent years.

Current series

• Unbound(2025)

Upcoming series

• Toyotomi Brothers!(2026)

List of series

Showa Era
#	Romanised Name	English title	Start	End	Starring	Supporting cast	Notes	Average Rating
1	Hana no Shōgai Hoa の kiếp sống	Life of a Flower	7 April 1963	29 December 1963	Onoe Shoroku II (asIi Naosuke)	Chikage Awashima Kaoru Yachigusa Kyōko Kagawa Keiji Sada	Detail Black and white. Bakumatsu period. Only footage fragments of episodes 1 and 38 still exist.	20.2%
2	Akō Rōshi Xích tuệ lãng sĩ		5 January 1964	27 December 1964	Kazuo Hasegawa (asŌishi Kuranosuke)	Isuzu Yamada Osamu Takizawa Chikage Awashima Onoe Baikō VII	Detail Black and white. Also the most viewed taiga drama in its early history. Set during theEdo period. A scene from episode 7 and full footage of episode 47 still exist.	31.9%
3	Taikōki Quá hợp nhớ		3 January 1965	26 December 1965	Ken Ogata (asToyotomi Hideyoshi)	Shiho Fujimura Yoshiko Mita Sessue Hayakawa Kōji Takahashi	Detail Black and white. Set in theSengoku period. Only episode 42 still exists.	31.2%
4	Minamoto no Yoshitsune Nguyên nghĩa kinh	Minamoto no Yoshitsune	2 January 1966	25 December 1966	Onoe Kikunosuke IV (asMinamoto no Yoshitsune)	Ken Ogata Junko Fuji Osamu Takizawa Isuzu Yamada	Detail Black and white. Set during theGenpei Warat the end of theHeian period. Only episodes 1, 33, and 52 still exist.	23.5%
5	San Shimai Tam tỷ muội	Three Sisters	1 January 1967	24 December 1967	Mariko Okada (asMura) Shiho Fujimura (asRui) Komaki Kurihara (asYuki)	Tsutomu Yamazaki Shinsuke Ashida Kō Nishimura Osamu Takizawa	Detail Black and white. Set at the end of the Edo period intoMeiji Restoration.It was chosen to commemorate the 100th year since the Meiji Restoration. Only episode 19 still exists.	19.1%
6	Ryōma ga Yuku Long mã がゆく	Ryōma Goes	7 January 1968	29 December 1968	Kin'ya Kitaōji (asSakamoto Ryōma)	Ruriko Asaoka Yoshie Mizutani Hideki Takahashi Keiju Kobayashi	Detail Black and white. Bakumatsu period. Along with previous year's Taiga drama, this was also chosen as part of the 100th year celebration since the Meiji Restoration. Only episode 16 still exists.	14.5%
7	Ten to Chi to Thiên と mà と	Heaven and Earth	5 January 1969	28 December 1969	Kōji Ishizaka (asNagao Kagetora/Uesugi Kenshin)	Fumie Kashiyama Ineko Arima Osamu Takizawa Kōji Takahashi	Detail Sengoku period. Only episode 50 and a fragment of episode 2 still exist. Colour. Future broadcasts are in colour.	25.0%
8	Momi no Ki wa Nokotta Tùng の mộc は tàn った	The Fir Tree Remained	4 January 1970	27 December 1970	Mikijirō Hira (as Harada Kai)	Sayuri Yoshinaga Komaki Kurihara Kinuyo Tanaka Kin'ya Kitaōji	Detail About theDate Disturbanceduring the Edo period. Although there were no battles, viewers commented that it was dark in tone. It was once thought to be entirely lost, but episode 29 in full color was discovered to still exist. It was then revealed in February 2011 that video tapes of 51 episodes out of 52 were recovered, albeit in black and white due to the limitations of the recording technology at the time.	21.0%
9	Haru no Sakamichi Xuân の bản nói	Slope of Spring	3 January 1971	26 December 1971	Nakamura Kinnosuke (asYagyū Munenori)	Yoshio Harada Yoko Tsukasa Ichikawa Ebizō X So Yamamura	Detail Set during late Sengoku period to early Edo period. No footage in full color still exist. Only the final episode still remains in black and white.	21.7%
10	Shin Heike Monogatari Tân ・ Heike Monogatari	New Tale of the Heike	2 January 1972	24 December 1972	Tatsuya Nakadai (asTaira no Kiyomori)	Tamao Nakamura Tsutomu Yamazaki Masakazu Tamura Osamu Takizawa	Detail Set during the late Heian era. Episodes 46 and 52 still exist in black and white.	21.4%
11	Kunitori Monogatari Quốc trộm り vật ngữ	Tale of Taking Countries	7 January 1973	30 December 1973	Mikijirō Hira (asSaitō Dōsan) Hideki Takahashi (asOda Nobunaga)	Keiko Matsuzaka Shōhei Hino Shigeru Tsuyuguchi Masaomi Kondō	Detail Sengoku period. All footage of the regular broadcast is lost. In 2015, videotape recordings of episodes 37 and 38 were recovered.	22.4%
12	Katsu Kaishū Thắng hải thuyền		6 January 1974	29 December 1974	Tetsuya Watari→Hiroki Matsukata (asKatsu Kaishū)	Reiko Ohara Yoshiko Kuga Keiju Kobayashi Onoe Shoroku II	Detail Set during Bakumatsu at the end of the Edo period. Only episodes 6, 7, 32, 35, 37, 38, 39, and 44 have been discovered to still exist.	24.2%
13	Genroku Taiheiki Nguyên lộc thái bình nhớ		6 January 1975	29 December 1975	Kōji Ishizaka (asYanagisawa Yoshiyasu)	Tōru Emori Muga Takewaki Shinsuke Ashida Hisaya Morishige	Detail Set during the Edo period. Episodes 2, 3, 7, and 18 still exist in its original broadcast form. As of 2016, a recording of episode 9 was recovered, as well as 41 videotaped episodes in 2019.	24.7%
14	Kaze to Kumo to Niji to Phong と vân と hồng と	Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow	4 January 1976	26 December 1976	Gō Katō (asTaira no Masakado)	Sayuri Yoshinaga Masao Kusakari Shigeru Tsuyuguchi Ken Ogata	Detail Heian period. It is the oldest NHK Taiga drama to date where all 52 episodes have been preserved.	24.0%
15	Kashin Hoa thần	Flower Spirit	2 January 1977	25 December 1977	Nakamura Umenosuke IV (asŌmura Masujirō)	Masatoshi Nakamura Jukichi Uno Ruriko Asaoka Hideki Takahashi	Detail Bakumatsu period. Only episodes 19, 24, 34, 39, and 52 (with 6 minutes missing) have been recovered.	19.0%
16	Ōgon no Hibi Hoàng kim の ngày ngày	Golden Days	8 January 1978	24 December 1978	Ichikawa Somegorō VI (asLuzon Sukezaemon)	Komaki Kurihara Jinpachi Nezu Kōji Tsuruta Matsumoto Kōshirō VIII	Detail Depicts daily life of merchants and traders inSakaiduring the Sengoku period. Starting from this Taiga drama onward, all episodes of each work still exist.	25.9%
17	Kusa Moeru Thảo châm える	Grass Burns	7 January 1979	23 December 1979	Kōji Ishizaka (asMinamoto no Yoritomo) Shima Iwashita (asHōjō Masako)	Ken Matsudaira Hiromi Go Keiko Matsuzaka Onoe Shoroku II	Detail Set during the Genpei War into the start of theKamakura period.The story is told from the female main character's perspective. All episodes still exist, however, 18 out of 51 episodes have distorted images and sound, as well as missing fragments.	26.3%
18	Shishi no Jidai Sư tử の thời đại	The Age of Lions	6 January 1980	21 December 1980	Bunta Sugawara (asHiranuma Eiji) Gō Katō (as KariyaYoshiaki)	Reiko Ohara Shinobu Otake Minoru Chiaki Kōji Tsuruta	Detail Set during the Bakumatsu and Meiji Restoration periods. Main leads are two fictional characters from rural Japan with commoner roots. It depicts their struggles to survive the chaotic, dark period.	21.0%
19	Onna Taikōki おんな quá hợp nhớ		11 January 1981	20 December 1981	Yoshiko Sakuma (asNene)	Masatoshi Nakamura Pinko Izumi Harue Akagi Toshiyuki Nishida	Detail Set during the Sengoku and early Edo periods. Based on the novel Taikōki (which formed the basis of the 3rd Taiga Drama of the same title), with the story told from Toyotomi Hideyoshi's wife's perspective.	31.8%
20	Tōge no Gunzō Tạp の hình tượng		10 January 1982	19 December 1982	Ken Ogata (asŌishi Kuranosuke)	Ken Matsudaira Juzo Itami Nakamura Umenosuke IV Jukichi Uno	Detail Edo period. This is the second depiction of the 47 Rōnin, which focused on different themes and an alternative insight into theAko Incident.	23.7%
21	Tokugawa Ieyasu Tokugawa Ieyasu	Tokugawa Ieyasu	9 January 1983	18 December 1983	Sakae Takita (asTokugawa Ieyasu)	Shinobu Otake Tetsuya Takeda Masako Natsume Kōji Ishizaka	Detail Set during the Sengoku and early Edo periods.	31.2%
22	Sanga Moyu Núi sông châm ゆ	Burning Mountains and Rivers	8 January 1984	23 December 1984	Matsumoto Kōshirō IX (asKenji Amo) Toshiyuki Nishida (asTadashi Amo)	Reiko Ohara Yoko Shimada Kenji Sawada Toshiro Mifune	Detail First (and so far only) Taiga drama set in theShōwa periodofWorld War II	21.1%
23	Haru no Hatō Xuân の sóng gió	Big Waves of Spring	6 January 1985	15 December 1985	Keiko Matsuzaka (asSada Yacco)	Masatoshi Nakamura Morio Kazama Chikage Awashima Keiju Kobayashi	Detail Set in theMeijiandTaishōeras. About the life of a former Japanesegeishawho became Japan's first actress.	18.2%
24	Inochi い の ち	Inochi: Life	5 January 1986	14 December 1986	Yoshiko Mita (asMiki Iwata)	Tetsurō Tamba Mako Ishino Koji Yakusho Ken Utsui	Detail Shōwa era. First taiga drama set in postwar Japan. First taiga drama to be officially broadcast with English subtitles. Fictional female lead.	29.3%
25	Dokuganryū Masamune Độc nhãn long chính tông	Masamune the One-Eyed Dragon	4 January 1987	13 December 1987	Ken Watanabe (asDate Masamune)	Tomokazu Miura Teruhiko Saigō Shima Iwashita Shintaro Katsu	Detail Late Sengoku to early Edo period.	39.7%
26	Takeda Shingen Takeda Shingen	Shingen Takeda	10 January 1988	18 December 1988	Kiichi Nakai (asTakeda Shingen)	Kyōhei Shibata Misako Konno Toshiyuki Nishida Ryōtarō Sugi	Detail Sengoku period. Last taiga drama to fully air during theShōwa period.	39.2%
27	Kasuga no Tsubone Ngày xuân cục	Kasuga the Court Lady	1 January 1989	17 December 1989	Reiko Ōhara (asLady Kasuga)	Aiko Nagayama Shinji Yamashita Tetsurō Tamba Yoshiko Sakuma	Detail Late Sengoku to early Edo periods. Focuses on the early reign of theTokugawa shogunate. Earliest premiere for a Taiga drama in 22 years since 1967's "Three Sisters"; the last taiga drama to air during the Shōwa period by only the first episode, and the second episode was delayed; first Taiga drama to be shown during theHeisei period.	33.1%
Heisei Era
28	Tobu ga Gotoku Tường ぶが như く	As If in Flight	7 January 1990	9 December 1990	Toshiyuki Nishida (asSaigō Takamori) Takeshi Kaga (asŌkubo Toshimichi)	Yūko Tanaka Sumiko Fuji Hideki Takahashi Yūzō Kayama	Detail Set during the Bakumatsu and Meiji Restoration periods centering around two of the last samurai. It is the first taiga drama to be firmly split into two parts.	23.2%
29	Taiheiki Thái bình nhớ		6 January 1991	25 December 1991	Hiroyuki Sanada (asAshikaga Takauji)	Yasuko Sawaguchi Tetsuya Takeda Frankie Sakai Kataoka Takao	Detail Kamakura period,going into theNanboku-chō periodduring earlyMuromachi period.	26.0%
30	Nobunaga Tin trường KING OF ZIPANGU	Nobunaga: King of Zipang	5 January 1992	13 December 1992	Naoto Ogata (asOda Nobunaga)	Momoko Kikuchi Keiko Takahashi Ken Utsui Mikijirō Hira	Detail Sengoku period. This is the second depiction of Oda Nobunaga in the main character role and the first full depiction as the sole lead.	24.6%
31	Ryūkyū no Kaze Lưu Cầu の phong DRAGON SPIRIT	Wind of the Ryūkyū Islands	10 January 1993	13 June 1993	Noriyuki Higashiyama (asKeitai)	Atsuro Watabe Tomoyo Harada Rumiko Koyanagi Kenichi Hagiwara	Detail Depicts theRyūkyūpeoples during theAzuchi-Momoyamaand Edo periods. It features a fictional character as the lead. First part of a 3-part series.	17.7%
32	Homura Tatsu Viêm lập つ	Burst Into Flames	4 July 1993	13 March 1994	Ken Watanabe (asFujiwara no Tsunekiyo,Fujiwara no Yasuhira) Hiroaki Murakami (asFujiwara no Kiyohira)	Yūko Kotegawa Kei Satō Tsunehiko Watase Kōtarō Satomi	Detail Set during the Genpei War during the late Heian period, it focuses on theNorthern Fujiwara Dynastyfrom its founding to its fall. Second part of a 3-part series. Also had the latest premiere for a Taiga drama at 35 episodes split into three parts in itself.	17.3%
33	Hana no Ran Hoa の loạn		3 April 1994	25 December 1994	Yoshiko Mita (asHino Tomiko)	Ichikawa Danjūrō XII Mansai Nomura Yorozuya Kinnosuke Machiko Kyō	Detail Muromachi to early Sengoku periods, focuses around theŌnin War. Conclusion of the 3-part series.	14.1%
34	Hachidai Shōgun Yoshimune Tám đời tướng quân cát tông	Yoshimune	8 January 1995	10 December 1995	Toshiyuki Nishida (asTokugawa Yoshimune)	Hideji Ōtaki Nenji Kobayashi Nakamura Baijaku II Masahiko Tsugawa	Detail Edo period. About the Eighth Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune, known as the "Father of Shogunate Reforms".	26.4%
35	Hideyoshi Tú cát	Hideyoshi	7 January 1996	22 December 1996	Naoto Takenaka (asToyotomi Hideyoshi)	Yasuko Sawaguchi Hiroaki Murakami Etsuko Ichihara Tetsuya Watari	Detail Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods. The second depiction of Hideyoshi in 31 years since 1965'sTaikōki.	30.5%
36	Mōri Motonari Phần lãi gộp nguyên liền	Mōri Motonari	5 January 1997	14 December 1997	Nakamura Hashinosuke III (asMōri Motonari)	Yasuko Tomita Takaya Kamikawa Keiko Matsuzaka Ken Ogata	Detail Sengoku period. This work was made to commemorate the 500th anniversary since Motonari's birth.	23.4%
37	Tokugawa Yoshinobu Đức xuyên khánh hỉ	Tokugawa Yoshinobu	4 January 1998	13 December 1998	Masahiro Motoki (asTokugawa Yoshinobu)	Bunta Sugawara Ayako Wakao Hikari Ishida Reiko Ohara	Detail Bakumatsu period. It covers the life of the last Tokugawa shōgun.	21.1%
38	Genroku Ryōran Nguyên lộc hỗn loạn	Chūshingura	1 January 1999	12 December 1999	Nakamura Kankurō V (asŌishi Kuranosuke)	Shinobu Otake Noriyuki Higashiyama Honami Suzuki Kenichi Hagiwara	Detail Edo period. Third depiction of the 47 Rōnin and the Ako Incident.	20.2%
39	Aoi Tokugawa Sandai Quỳ đức xuyên tam đại	Aoi	9 January 2000	17 December 2000	Masahiko Tsugawa (asTokugawa Ieyasu) Toshiyuki Nishida (asTokugawa Hidetada) Onoe Tatsunosuke II (asTokugawa Iemitsu)	Tōru Emori Nakamura Baijaku II Mayumi Ogawa Shima Iwashita	Detail Azuchi-Momoyama to early Edo periods. It depicts the events of the first three Tokugawa shōguns; this is the second depiction of Tokugawa Ieyasu where he's a main character. First series to be fully filmed inhigh definition(HD).Future series are also broadcast in HD.	18.5%
40	Hōjō Tokimune Bắc điều khi tông	Hōjō Tokimune	7 January 2001	9 December 2001	Motoya Izumi (asHōjō Tokimune)	Atsuro Watabe Ken Watanabe Sumiko Fuji Kin'ya Kitaōji	Detail Kamakura period.	18.5%
41	Toshiie to Matsu Lợi gia とまつ～ thêm hạ trăm vạn thạch vật ngữ ～	Toshiie and Matsu	6 January 2002	15 December 2002	Toshiaki Karasawa (asMaeda Toshiie) Nanako Matsushima (asMaeda Matsu)	Takashi Sorimachi Teruyuki Kagawa Ken Matsudaira Bunta Sugawara	Detail Sengoku and early Edo periods.	22.1%
42	Musashi Võ tàng MUSASHI	Musashi	5 January 2003	7 December 2003	Ichikawa Shinnosuke VII (asMiyamoto Musashi)	Ryoko Yonekura Shinichi Tsutsumi Tsunehiko Watase Makoto Fujita	Detail Edo period.	16.7%
43	Shinsengumi! Tân soạn tổ!		11 January 2004	12 December 2004	Shingo Katori (asKondō Isami)	Tatsuya Fujiwara Koji Yamamoto Masato Sakai Kōji Ishizaka	Detail Bakumatsu period.	17.4%
44	Yoshitsune Nghĩa kinh	Yoshitsune	9 January 2005	11 December 2005	Hideaki Takizawa (asMinamoto no Yoshitsune)	Ken Matsudaira Mikijirō Hira Kiichi Nakai Tetsuya Watari	Detail Depicts the Genpei War during late Heian period. Second depiction of Minamoto no Yoshitsune in Taiga dramas.	19.5%
45	Kōmyō ga Tsuji Công danh が thập	Love and Glory	8 January 2006	10 December 2006	Yukie Nakama (asYamauchi Chiyo) Takaya Kamikawa (asYamauchi Kazutoyo)	Tetsuya Takeda Gin Maeda Akira Emoto Hiroshi Tachi	Detail Sengoku to early Edo periods. It depicts a minor samurai and his wife as dual main characters	20.9%
46	Fūrin Kazan Phong lâm núi lửa	The Trusted Confidant	7 January 2007	9 December 2007	Masaaki Uchino (asYamamoto Kansuke)	Ichikawa Kamejirō II Gackt Sonny Chiba Tatsuya Nakadai	Detail Sengoku period. It depicts the life of one of Takeda Shingen's 24 Generals.	18.7%
47	Atsuhime Đốc cơ	Princess Atsu	6 January 2008	21 December 2008	Aoi Miyazaki (asAtsuhime)	Eita Masato Sakai Hideki Takahashi Kin'ya Kitaōji	Detail Bakumatsu period.	24.5%
48	Tenchijin Thiên địa người	Heart of a Samurai	4 January 2009	22 November 2009	Satoshi Tsumabuki (asNaoe Kanetsugu)	Kazuki Kitamura Takako Tokiwa Hiroshi Abe Hiroki Matsukata	Detail Sengoku to early Edo periods. Depicts the life of one of the Uesugi clan's long-serving vassals.	21.2%
49	Ryōmaden Long mã vân	Ryōmaden: The Legend	3 January 2010	28 November 2010	Masaharu Fukuyama (asSakamoto Ryōma)	Teruyuki Kagawa Nao Ōmori Kiyoshi Kodama Kōtarō Satomi	Detail Bakumatsu period. Second depiction of Sakamoto Ryōma as the main role in Taiga dramas.	18.7%
50	Gō Giang 〜 cơ たち の chiến quốc 〜	Princess Go	9 January 2011	27 November 2011	Juri Ueno (asGō)	Rie Miyazawa Asami Mizukawa Gorō Kishitani Kin'ya Kitaōji	Detail Late Sengoku to early Edo periods.	17.7%
51	Taira no Kiyomori Bình thanh thịnh	Kiyomori	8 January 2012	23 December 2012	Kenichi Matsuyama (asTaira no Kiyomori)	Hiroshi Tamaki Masaki Okada Shota Matsuda Kiichi Nakai	Detail Late Heian period's Genpei War. The second Taiga drama to depict Taira no Kiyomori as its main character.	12.0%
52	Yae no Sakura Bát trọng の anh	Yae's Sakura	6 January 2013	15 December 2013	Haruka Ayase (asNiijima Yae)	Hidetoshi Nishijima Hiroki Hasegawa Nakamura Shidō II Toshiyuki Nishida	Detail Bakumatsu to Meiji periods.	14.6%
53	Gunshi Kanbei Quân sư quan binh vệ	Strategist Kanbe	5 January 2014	21 December 2014	Junichi Okada (asKuroda Kanbei)	Miki Nakatani Tori Matsuzaka Naoto Takenaka Kyōhei Shibata	Detail Sengoku to early Edo periods.	15.8%
54	Hana Moyu Hoa châm ゆ	Burning Flower	4 January 2015	13 December 2015	Mao Inoue (as Sugi Fumi)	Takao Osawa Yūsuke Iseya Kengo Kora Yoshiko Mita	Detail Bakumatsu to Meiji periods.	12.0%
55	Sanada Maru Thật điền hoàn	Sanada Maru	10 January 2016	18 December 2016	Masato Sakai (asSanada Yukimura)	Yo Oizumi Masami Nagasawa Seiyō Uchino Masao Kusakari	Detail Sengoku to early Edo periods. Depicts the life of the "Last Sengoku Hero".	16.6%
56	Onna Jōshu Naotora おんな thành chủ thẳng hổ	Naotora: The Lady Warlord	8 January 2017	17 December 2017	Ko Shibasaki (asIi Naotora)	Haruma Miura Issey Takahashi Masaki Suda Kaoru Kobayashi	Detail Sengoku to Azuchi-Momoyama periods.	12.8%
57	Segodon Tây hương どん	Segodon	7 January 2018	16 December 2018	Ryohei Suzuki (asSaigō Takamori)	Eita Keiko Kitagawa Shota Matsuda Ken Watanabe	Detail The second work to depict Saigō Takamori as its main lead in Taiga dramas. Last taiga drama to air in its entirety during the Heisei period.	12.7%
58	Idaten いだてん～ Đông Kinh オリムピック噺～	Idaten: The Epic Marathon to Tokyo	6 January 2019	15 December 2019	Nakamura Kankurō VI (asShizo Kanakuri) Sadao Abe (asMasaji Tabata)	Haruka Ayase Takeshi Kitano Mirai Moriyama Koji Yakusho	Detail Set during Meiji and Shōwa eras. Last taiga drama to premiere during the Heisei period and the first Taiga drama to be shown during theReiwa period.	8.2%
Reiwa era
59	Kirin ga Kuru Kỳ lân がくる	Awaiting Kirin	19 January 2020	7 February 2021	Hiroki Hasegawa (asAkechi Mitsuhide)	Shota Sometani Mugi Kadowaki Haruna Kawaguchi Masahiro Motoki	Detail Sengoku period. First Taiga drama to premiere in the Reiwa period.	14.4%
60	Seiten o Tsuke Thanh thiên を hướng け	Reach Beyond the Blue Sky	14 February 2021	26 December 2021	Ryo Yoshizawa (asShibusawa Eiichi)	Kengo Kora Ai Hashimoto Tsuyoshi Kusanagi Kaoru Kobayashi	Detail Meiji Restoration period to Shōwa era.	14.1%
61	Kamakura-dono no 13-nin Liêm thương điện の 13 người	The 13 Lords of the Shogun	9 January 2022	18 December 2022	Shun Oguri (asHōjō Yoshitoki)	Eiko Koike Koji Yamamoto Yo Oizumi Toshiyuki Nishida	Detail Late Heian period's Genpei War to Kamakura period.	12.7%
62	Dousuru Ieyasu どうする gia khang	What Will You Do, Ieyasu?	8 January 2023	17 December 2023	Jun Matsumoto (asTokugawa Ieyasu)	Kasumi Arimura Junichi Okada Keiko Kitagawa Hiroshi Abe	Detail Sengoku to early Edo periods. This work is the third depiction of where Tokugawa Ieyasu appears as the Taiga drama's starring character.	11.2%
63	Hikaru Kimi e Quang る quân へ	Dear Radiance	7 January 2024	15 December 2024	Yuriko Yoshitaka (asMurasaki Shikibu)	Tasuku Emoto Akihisa Shiono Ai Mikami Yasunori Danta	Detail Set during mid-Heian period depicting the life of one of Japanese's first novel authors, who pennedThe Tale of Genji.	10.7%
64	Berabou べらぼう ～ điểu trọng vinh hoa nãi mộng 噺～	Unbound	5 January 2025	2025	Ryusei Yokohama (asTsutaya Jūzaburō)	Ken Yasuda Fuka Koshiba Hio Miyazawa Ken Watanabe	Detail Set during mid-Edo period, which depicts the life of publishing illustrated books andukiyo-ewoodblock prints.
65	Toyotomi Kyōdai! Phong thần huynh đệ!	TBA	2026	2026	Taiga Nakano (asToyotomi Hidenaga)	Sosuke Ikematsu Riho Yoshioka Maki Sakai Shun Oguri	Detail Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods.

NHK Special Drama

Saka no Ue no Kumowas originally set for a 2006 broadcast as "21st Century Taiga Drama". However, the scriptwriter of the series committed suicide, causing a delay in production. The series was aired as "NHK Special Drama" in three parts, each part airing from late November to late December of each year.

Title	season	Episodes	Start	End	Starring	Supporting cast
Saka no Ue no Kumo	1	5 eps	29 November 2009	27 December 2009	Masahiro Motoki Hiroshi Abe Teruyuki Kagawa	Miho Kanno Gō Katō Hideki Takahashi Tetsuya Watari
	2	4 eps	5 December 2010	26 December 2010
	3	4 eps	4 December 2011	25 December 2011

Fantasy taiga drama

Title	season	Episodes	Start	End	Starring	Supporting cast
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit	1	4 eps	26 March 2016	9 April 2016	Haruka Ayase	Masahiro Higashide Mizuki Itagaki Mikijirō Hira Tatsuya Fujiwara
	2	9 eps	21 January 2017	25 March 2017
	3	9 eps	25 November 2017	27 January 2018

New Big Jidaigeki

NHK broadcast threetaigadramas covering modern and contemporary history from 1984 to 1986. Instead, they specially prepared these three productions forjidaigekifans. Many viewers see them as almost equivalent toTaigadramas.

#	Romanised Name	Kanji Name	Episodes	Start	End	Starring	Supporting cast
1	Miyamoto Musashi	Cung bổn võ tàng	45 eps	4 April 1984	13 March 1985	Koji Yakusho	Yūko Kotegawa Eiji Okuda Kōji Naka Tetsurō Tamba
2	Sanada Taiheiki	Thật điền thái bình nhớ	45 eps	3 April 1985	19 March 1986	Tsunehiko Watase	Masao Kusakari Kurara Haruka Misako Konno Tetsurō Tamba
3	Musashibō Benkei	Võ tàng phường biện khánh	34 eps	9 April 1986	12 December 1986	Nakamura Kichiemon II	Tarō Kawano Keiko Oginome Bunta Sugawara Yorozuya Kinnosuke

Series overviews

The set ofRyūkyū no Kaze(1993) is now a park in Okinawa.

• Kōmyō-ga-tsuji:Yamauchi Kazutoyono Tsuma.Takaya Kamikawaplays the role of Yamauchi Kazutoyo, the military commander anddaimyōwho took over theTosahanand builtKōchi Castle.Nakama Yukieplays the role of Chiyo, the ever-supporting wife of Kazutoyo. The story byShiba Ryōtarōspans the closing years of theSengoku period,theAzuchi–Momoyama period,and the beginning of theEdo period.
• Võ tàng MUSASHI(2003). Kabuki actor Ichikawa Shinnosuke VII (nowIchikawa Ebizō XI) held the lead role as the swordsmanMiyamoto Musashi,whose lives spanned the end of thesengokuand the beginning of theEdo periods.The series was based on theYoshikawa Eijinovel that forms the basis for most modern fiction based on the events of Musashi's life. This was the first Taiga Drama to have its title in bothkanjiand theLatin Alpha bet.
• Toshiie and Matsu(2002).Toshiaki KarasawaasMaeda ToshiieandNanako MatsushimaasMatsurecounted the establishment of theTokugawa shogunatefrom the point of view of anoutsidedaimyō.
• Hōjō Tokimune(2001).KyōgenactorIzumi Motoyaplayed thelead character,heading a cast that includedWatanabe Ken.Major events in the series included theMongol Invasions of Japan.
• Genroku Ryōran(1999).KabukiactorNakamura Kankurō VplayedŌishi Kuranosukein this story set in theGenrokuperiod, during which the events of theForty-sevenrōninoccurred.

See also

• Japanese television dramas
• Jidaigeki
• Asadora
• Sageuk

External links

• Official Site(in Japanese)