Kunitori Monogatari (1973)

Kunitori Monogatari (1973)


Plot.
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Cast & Crew.

Mikijiro Hira
Saito Dosan

Hideki Takahashi
Oda Nobunaga

Keiko Matsuzaka
No Hime

Ryūnosuke Kaneda
Actor

Yoshiko Mita
Miyoshino Hime

Masaomi Kondo
Akechi Mitsuhide

Shōhei Hino
Hashiba Hideyoshi

Iyoda Shizuhiro
Director

Satoru Saito
Director

Yasuko Ōno
Screenplay

Ryōtarō Shiba
Original Story

Yuji Murakami
Director

Endo Toshio
Producer

Hikaru Hayashi
Original Music Composer
Media.

Details.
Release DateJanuary 7, 1973
Original Name国盗り物語
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes51
Running Time45m
Genres
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This TV Show Is About.
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Kunitori Monogatari (国盗り物語, lit. 'Tale of acquiring countries') is a historical novel by Japanese novelist Ryōtarō Shiba.
It was serialised in Sunday Mainichi (Mainichi Shimbun Publishing Inc.) from August 1963 to June 1966.
It consists of a first part starring Saito Dōsan and a second part starring Oda Nobunaga and Akechi Mitsuhide. Initially, Shiba planned to write only the story of Dōsan, but the series was too popular to be finished and Shiba was forced to write the second part, the story of Nobunaga and Mitsuhide.
Shiba skilfully incorporated the results of post-war historical studies into his novels, positioning Nobunaga as a revolutionary with a clear will, a rarity in Japanese history, and establishing an image of Nobunaga in which light and shadow coexist by not only evaluating his innovativeness but also criticising his brutality. Thanks in part to Shiba's contributions, Nobunaga, who had not always been popular before, became one of the most popular historical figures in Japan.
Two TV drama adaptations have been produced by NHK and TV Tokyo.