Japanese Drama - Byakkotai

* Title: 白虎隊 （びゃっこたい）
* Title (romaji): Byakkotai
* Format: Tanpatsu, in two parts
* Genre: Jidaigeki
* Viewership ratings: 17.4 (ep1), 17.1 (ep2)
* Broadcast network: TV Asahi
* Broadcast period: 2007-Jan-06 and 2007-Jan-07
* Air time: 21:00
* Theme song: You Raise Me Up by Celtic Woman
* Related shows: Byakkotai 1986

Synopsis

A re-make of the 1986 hit, which scored 80-percent in the Aizu district of Fukushima prefecture.

"Byakkotai" seems to be a story by which the content of the drama visits Byakkotai Memorial Hall by a modern young person who is the descendant of a Byakkotai samurai, and traces the history of the tragedy of the Byakkotai in the force organized by about 340 boys of 16 years old and 17 years old at Boshin War (Aizu war). Yamashita performs two roles (a Byakkotai samurai in the old days and the descendant, Shintaro Sakai).

Cast

Byakkotai Samurai

* Yamashita Tomohisa as Sakai Mineji and Sakai Shintaro
* Tanaka Koki as Shinoda Gisaburo and Shinoda Yusuke
* Fujigaya Taisuke as Ito Matahachi
* Saito Shota as Tsuda Sutezo
* Tomita Sho as Nishikawa Katsutaro
* Sakimoto Hiromi as Iinuma Sadakichi
* Tsujimoto Yuki (辻本祐樹) as Nagase Yuji
* Hashizume Ryo as Ishida Wasuke
* Tochihara Rakuto
* Kujirai Kousuke (鯨井康介) as Adachi Tozaburo
* Kotani Yukihiro (小谷幸弘)
* Tagana Masaya (多賀名将也) as Ibuka Motaro
* Hanaya Mitsunori (花谷充規)
* Kouno Hiroki as Shintaro Ikegami
* Kato Takashi (加藤崇)
* Otani Sho (大谷翔)
* Gonda Yuichiro (権田裕一郎)
* Fukuda Yusuke (福田雄介)
* Ueyama Manabu (植山学)
* Aoyama Masafumi (青山雅史)
* Tomihira Kazuma (富平和馬)
* Ezaki Oe (江嵜大兄)
* Yoshitake Shuhei (吉武周平)
* Ishiguro Hideo
* Yamada Akira (山田晃)
* Saito Rikimaru (齋藤力丸)
* Kawanishi Hiroshi (川西裕士)

Other Characters

* Yakushimaru Hiroko as Sakai Shige (Mineji's mother)
* Nogiwa Yoko as Sakai Mon (Mineji's grandmother)
* Takashima Masanobu as Sakai Yasuemon (Mineji's father)
* Ito Shiro as Sakai Mineo (Shintaro's grandfather)
* Kuroki Meisa as Asai Sayoko
* Ito Kazue as Asai Sumie (Sayoko's mother)
* Matsushige Yutaka as Yamamoto Kakuma
* Masu Takeshi as Sugiyama Eitaro
* Kikawada Masaya as Sakai Takie (Mineji's brother)
* Matsuo Toshinobu as Yamakawa Hiroshi
* Tsutsui Mariko as Tsuda Suguko (Tsuda Sutezo's mother)
* Iida Kisuke
* Yamada Meikyo
* Takuma Takayuki
* Hirooka Yuriko
* Nishihara Aki
* Kanno Rio
* Hitomi Sanae (人見早苗)
* Kobayashi Ken
* Matoba Koji
* Nakagoshi Noriko as Yamamoto Yaeko
* Sugata Shun (菅田俊)
* Ida Kunihiko
* Namiki Shiro
* Sonoi Koji (園井光司)
* Okayama Hajime
* Watari Hiroshi (渡洋史)
* Sakaki Hideo (榊英雄)
* Sakai Toshiya
* Enjoji Aya
* Ishimaru Kenjiro
* Ishikura Saburo
* Bengal
* Kinoshita Hoka
* Musaka Naomasa
* Watanabe Ikkei
* Kataoka Tsurutaro
* Wakamura Mayumi as Shinoda Shinko (Gisaburo's mother)
* Wakui Emi
* Asano Yuko
* Kobayashi Nenji as Saigou Tanomo
* Higashiyama Noriyuki as Matsudaira Katamori

Production Credits

* Screenwriter: Uchidate Makiko
* Chief producer: Igarashi Fumio
* Producers: Uchiyama Satoko (内山聖子), Tezuka Osamu (手塚治), Maruyama Shinya (丸山真哉)
* Director: Hashimoto Hajime (橋本一)
* Music: Oshima Michiru

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