Fūrin Kazan (TV series) explained
is the 46th NHK Taiga drama television series that began on January 7, 2007. It was aired throughout 2007, with the last episode aired December 16, 2007. Its official English title is The Trusted Confidant.[1]
The story, to a large extent, was an adaptation of Yasushi Inoue's 1959 historical novel of the same title (published in English under the title The Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan[2]). The four characters of the title, from left to right are wind, woods, fire, and mountain. The title is a reference to the war banner used by Takeda Shingen, which in turn was taken from Sun Tzu's The Art of War. It means "Swift as the Wind, Silent as a Forest, Fierce as Fire and Immovable as a Mountain."
Plot
Set in the Sengoku period, it depicts the life of Yamamoto Kansuke who is known as one of Takeda Shingen's renowned strategists, as well as life of Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin among others.[3]
Production
Production Credits
- Director – Kazuhiko Shimizu
- Screenwriter – Sumio Ōmori
- Based on the novel by – Yasushi Inoue
- Narrator – Sachiko Kagami
- Music – Akira Senju
- Titling – Kōji Kakinuma
- Historical research – Shunroku Shibatsuji
- Action director – Kunishirō Hayashi
- Architectural research – Sei Hirai
- Clothing research – Kiyoko Koizumi
- Production coordinator – Hisaaki Wakaizumi
Starring
Yamamoto family
Masaaki Uchino
Kuzukasa village
Takeda family
Ichikawa Kamejirō II
Chizuru Ikewaki
Tatsuya Nakadai
Jun Fubuki
Noritoshi Kashiwa
Toshinobu Matsuo
Ryo Kimura
Takeda Shingen's vassals
Sonny Chiba
Raita Ryu
Akio Kaneda
Takeshi Katō
Seiichi Tanabe
Kazuya Takahashi
Kai Shishido
Issei Takahashi
Koutaro Tanaka
Yasuyuki Maekawa
Hidekazu Ichinose
Kuranosuke Sasaki
Misa Shimizu
Kaito Kobayashi
Yoshimasa Kondō
Uesugi clan
Gackt
Ken Ogata
Tokuma Nishioka
Kenichi Kaneda
Gen Kimura
Gorō Ōhashi
Naomi Nishida
Ichikawa Sadanji
Mantarō Koichi
Mizuho Suzuki
Imagawa clan
Shōsuke Tanihara
Shiho Fujimura
Masatō Ibu
Yukijirō Kazama
Keisuke Sakamoto
Later Hōjō clan
Makoto Matsui
Tōru Shinagawa
Saotome Taichi
Tamotsu Ishibashi
Tadashi Yokouchi
Other Daimyō of Shinano Province
Toshiyuki Nagashima
Fumiyo Kohinata
Akihiko Imai
Shōzō Uesugi
Akira Otaka
Others
Jirō Sakuma
Shun Sugata
Episodes
- Episode 1 - The One-Eyed Man
- Episode 2 - Farewell, Birthplace
- Episode 3 - Marici's Wife
- Episode 4 - Demon of Vengeance
- Episode 5 - Suruga Rebellion
- Episode 6 - The Road to Employment
- Episode 7 - Harunobu's First Battle
- Episode 8 - Surprise Attack! Unnokuchi
- Episode 9 - Kansuke's Death
- Episode 10 - Harunobu Commits Treason
- Episode 11 - Nobutora's Banishment
- Episode 12 - Kansuke Gains Employment
- Episode 13 - The Uninvited Man
- Episode 14 - Flag of Sun Tzu
- Episode 15 - The Invasion of Suwa
- Episode 16 - The Fated Encounter
- Episode 17 - The Princess' Tears
- Episode 18 - To Live or to Die?
- Episode 19 - The Cursed Flute
- Episode 20 - Birth of a Tactician
- Episode 21 - The Princess' Disappearance
- Episode 22 - Clash of the Three Provinces
- Episode 23 - Night Attack at Kawagoe
- Episode 24 - The Dragon of Echigo
- Episode 25 - A Cruel Law
- Episode 26 - A Painful Victory
- Episode 27 - The Strongest Enemy
- Episode 28 - Death of Two Great Men
- Episode 29 - Counterattack! The Takeda Army
- Episode 30 - The Road Towards Subjugating the Country
- Episode 31 - The Treacherous Castle
- Episode 32 - Infiltrating Echigo
- Episode 33 - Kansuke is Captured
- Episode 34 - Sanada's Desire
- Episode 35 - The Princess' Battle
- Episode 36 - Women of Fate
- Episode 37 - Mother's Will
- Episode 38 - Subjugating Murakami
- Episode 39 - Kawanakajima! Clash Between the Dragon and Tiger
- Episode 40 - The Triple Alliance
- Episode 41 - The Princess' Death
- Episode 42 - The Tactician and the God of War
- Episode 43 - Birth of Shingen
- Episode 44 - Shingen's Assassination
- Episode 45 - The Scheme! Okehazama
- Episode 46 - The Kanto Expedition
- Episode 47 - Night Before the Decisive Battle
- Episode 48 - The Crucial Moment- Kawanakajima
- Episode 49 - Desperate Struggle - Kawanakajima
- Episode 50 - The Decisive Battle - Kawanakajima
Soundtrack and books
Soundtrack
Books
- Official guide
- NHK Taiga Drama Story Fūrin Kazan First Part (December 20, 2006)
- NHK Taiga Drama Story Fūrin Kazan Last Part (June 25, 2007)
- NHK Taiga Drama, Historical handbook, Fūrin Kazan (December 2006)
- Novel
- NHK Taiga Drama 1, Volume of Wind (November 2006)
- NHK Taiga Drama 2, Volume of Forest (March 2007)
- NHK Taiga Drama 3, Volume of Fire (June 2007)
- NHK Taiga Drama 4, Volume of Mountain (September 2007)
- Photobook
- Ryu no Kenshin with Gackt by photographer Seiichi Nomura (NHK Publishing) (November 2007)
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: The Trusted Confidant NEP Program Finder . . 15 November 2020.
- Inoue, Yasushi. The Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan. Translated by Yoko Riley. Vermont: Tuttle Publishing, 2005. , accessed 10 January 2014.
- Web site: 風林火山とは. kotobank. 30 December 2020.
