Taira No Kiyomori

Description

During the late Heian era, a youth who did not know his birth parents was raised by the Heike (also known as the Taira), a samurai clan of emerging influence. Taira no Kiyomori (Matsuyama Kenichi) was in truth the illegitimate son of Emperor Shirakawa. With his adoptive father, Tadamori (Nakai Kiichi), he got rid of the pirates in the Seto Insland Sea, and was trained to be a samurai. In a period where the samurai were being discriminated by the aristocrats of the upper echelons of society, Kiyomori, who was adept at winning hearts and minds, controlled the pirates. He worked to reform the aristocracy, persisted with the way of life of the samurai and built up the mighty Taira clan (Nakamura Baijaku, Kamikawa Takaya, Fujimoto Takahiro, Daito Shunsuke). Before long, he rose from a senior courtier of the third rank to become the chief minister and the ruler of Japan.

Country: Japanese

Status: completed

Released: 2012

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Historical, Martial Arts, melodrama, Military, political, Romance

Cast: Abe Sadao, Abe Tomori, Anne Watanabe, Arai Yusuke, Chiba Yudai, Cho Tamiyasu, Daito Shunsuke, Dan Rei, Era Jun, Fujiki Naohito, Fujimoto Takahiro, Fukada Kyoko, Fukiishi Kazue, Hara Yuya, Hiiragi Rumi, Horibe Keisuke, Ikeda Yuto, Ito Aoi, Ito Shiro, Iura Arata, Kamikawa Takaya, Kamiki Ryunosuke, Kaneda Akio, Kato Ai, Kato Koji, Kohinata Fumiyo, Kubota Masataka, Kunimura Jun, Kurosawa Hiroki, Kusakawa Takuya, Kyomoto Masaki, Maeda Oshiro, Maekawa Reisa, Matsuda Seiko, Matsuda Shota, Matsuyama Kenichi, Matsuyuki Yasuko, Mikami Hiroshi, Miyada Yumiko, Morita Go, Nakagawa Taishi, Nakai Kiichi, Nakamura Atsuo, Nakamura Baijaku, Nakano Tsuyoshi, Narumi Riko, Nishijima Takahiro, Ode Nanako, Okada Masaki, Okamoto Nobuto, Omi Toshinori, Sato Jiro, Satoi Kenta, Suda Kunihiro, Suda Ryuga, Suzunosuke, Takasugi Mahiro, Takei Emi, Tamaki Hiroshi, Tanaka Rena, Toyohara Kosuke, Tsuchihira Donpei, Tsujimoto Yuki, Wakui Emi, Watanabe Tetsu, Yamamoto Koji, Yamura Hiroki, Yokomizo Naho