| Genre: | Taiga drama |
| Director: | Sanzo Nakayama, Asao Yamanaka |
| Starring: | Tetsuya Watari Hiroki Matsukata Kenichi Hagiwara Joe Shishido Tatsuya Fuji Tsunehiko Watase Masahiko Tsugawa Hiroshi Fujioka Reiko Ohara Mitsuko Oka Akiko Nishina Katsumasa Uchida Keiju Kobayashi Onoe Shoroku II |
| Theme Music Composer: | Isao Tomita |
| Opentheme: | NHK Symphony Orchestra |
| Country: | Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Num Episodes: | 52 |
| Runtime: | 45 minutes |
| Channel: | NHK |
is a 1974 Japanese television series. It is the 12th NHK taiga drama.[1] Tetsuya Watari was forced to step down from the role of Katsu Kaishū because of his illness so he appeared in only the first 9 episodes.[2] [3]
The average viewing rating was 24.2%, with the highest peaking at 30.9%. Only episodes 6, 7, 32, 35, 37, 38, 39, and 44 have been discovered to still exist.
Katsu Kaishū deals with end of the Edo period. Based on Kan Shimozawa's novels "Katsu Kaishū ".[4] [5]
The story chronicles the life of Katsu Kaishū.[6] [1]