| Genre: | Taiga drama |
| Director: | Makoto Ohara etc |
| Starring: | Kazuo Hasegawa Shinsuke Ashida Chikage Awashima Takahiro Tamura Jukichi Uno Katsuo Nakamura Takashi Shimura Yoichi Hayashi Jun Tazaki Masakazu Tamura Kanjūrō Arashi Osamu Takizawa Isuzu Yamada |
| Narrated: | Saburō Takeuchi |
| Theme Music Composer: | Yasushi Akutagawa |
| Opentheme: | NHK Symphony Orchestra |
| Country: | Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Num Episodes: | 52 |
| Runtime: | 45 minutes |
| Channel: | NHK |
| Related: | Akō Rōshi (1961 film) |
is a 1964 Japanese television series. It is the 2nd NHK taiga drama.[1] [2]
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.[3] 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).[4]
A scene from episode 7 and the full footage of episode 47 still remain today, the latter of which garnered the highest viewership rating.
Akō Rōshi deals with the Edo period. Based on Jirō Osaragi's novels of the same title.[5]
It depicts the stories of the Forty-seven rōnin with Ōishi Kuranosuke as the main lead.[6] [7] [8]