Genre: | Jidaigeki |
Runtime: | 45 minutes (per episode) |
Country: | Japan |
Language: | Japanese |
Num Episodes: | 11 |
Company: | NHK |
Network: | NHK |
Starring: | Tatsuya Fuji Shôhei Hino Kyoko Enami Noriko Aoyama Mariya Nishiuchi Masatō Ibu |
Theme Music Composer: | Toshiyuki Watanabe |
is a Japanese television jidaigeki or period drama that was broadcast in prime-time on NHK in 2015. Tatsuya Fuji played Maeda Keiji. Kabukimono Keiji depicts the later life of Maeda Keiji who was called Kabukimono.[1] [2]
Maeda Keiji used to be a famous samurai but now he is spending half retired life at Mukuan(Keiji's fortified resistance) in Yonezawa.
Maeda Keiji secretly raised a child of Ishida Mitsunari as a child of himself but that was known to the Tokugawa shogunate. Tentoku was sent by Tokugawa shogunate as a spy to demolish Yonezawa han. Maeda Keiji tries to protect his child (Child of Ishida Mitsunari) and Yonezawa han from Tokugawa shogunate. When his wife is shot and injured by assassins of Tokugawa shogunate, Keiji decides to go to Sunpu castle to meet Tokugawa Ieyasu.[3] [4]