| Genre: | Taiga drama |
| Director: | Hiroshi Inoue etc |
| Starring: | Onoe Shoroku II Chikage Awashima Kaoru Yachigusa Kyōko Kagawa Shinsuke Ashida Masakazu Tamura Ko Nishimura Hiroyuki Nagato Kanjūrō Arashi Eitaro Ozawa Keiji Sada |
| Narrated: | Eitaro Ozawa |
| Theme Music Composer: | Isao Tomita |
| Opentheme: | NHK Symphony Orchestra |
| Country: | Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Num Episodes: | 39 |
| Runtime: | 45 minutes |
| Channel: | NHK |
| Related: | Akō Rōshi (1964 TV series) |
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%.[1]
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.
Hana no Shōgai deals with the Bakumatsu at the end of the Edo period. Based on Funahashi Seiichi's novels of the same title.[2]
The story chronicles the life of Ii Naosuke up to the Sakuradamon Incident in 1860.[3] [4] [5]