Kabukimono Keiji Explained

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]

Plot

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]

Cast

Notes and References

  1. Web site: かぶき者慶次とは. kotobank. December 14, 2020.
  2. Web site: かぶき者慶次 戦国一の武辺者!人気の派手男・前田慶次の晩年は、のんきなお父さん? その胸に秘めた「男の約束」を藤竜也が硬軟自在に演じる。. 時代劇専門チャンネル. December 14, 2018 .
  3. Web site: かぶき者慶次. NHK. June 3, 2017 .
  4. Web site: かぶき者慶次 2. NHK. June 3, 2017 .