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草燃える is a 1979 Japanese television series. It is the 17th .

It is also the first Taiga drama to standardize the use of modern language in dialogue starting with this one onward. On the other hand, characters did not use first names to address others as it was considered disrespectful historically, instead used people's common names and court ranks as was custom for the time.


Story
Kusa Moeru deals with the rise and fall of the Kamakura shogunate at the start of the . Based on 's novels "Hojo Masako", "Enkan" etc.

The story chronicles the lives of Minamoto no Yoritomo and Hōjō Masako. As the drama producers found it difficult to create a solo female protagonist, they made the drama with dual protagonists in mind. Minamoto no Yoritomo's story ends halfway with his death, then Masako takes over the leading role for the last half. However, even with this structure, the first half emphasizes on Masako's perspective of events, making her essentially the main character of the entire story.


Cast

Minamoto no Yoritomo's family
  • Kōji Ishizaka as Minamoto no Yoritomo, the first of the Kamakura shogunate
    • Yōji Matsuda as young Yoritomo
  • as Hōjō Masako
  • Tomiyuki Kunihiro as Minamoto no Yoshitsune
  • as Minamoto no Yoriie, the second shōgun
  • Saburō Shinoda as Minamoto no Sanetomo, the third shōgun
  • as Ōhime


Minamoto no Yoritomo's vassals


Hōjō clan


Taira clan
  • as Taira no Kiyomori
  • Kaneko Iwasaki as Taira no Tokiko, Kiyomori's wife
  • as Taira no Munemori
  • Etsuko Ikuta as Taira no Tokuko


Others


TV schedule
1 Makoto Ōhara27.9%
2 Hiroyuki Eguchi30.5%
3 Shizuhiro Izuta
4 Makoto Ōhara29.6%
5 Hiroyuki Eguchi28.7%
6 Shizuhiro Izuta29.1%
7 Makoto Ōhara27.5%
8 Makoto Ōhara27.3%
9 Hiroyuki Eguchi32.4%
10 Shizuhiro Izuta30.3%
11 Makoto Ōhara31.4%
12 Hiroyuki Eguchi29.2%
13 Shizuhiro Izuta27.6%
14 Makoto Ōhara22.7%
15 Hiroyuki Eguchi24.0%
16 Shizuhiro Izuta27.1%
17 Makoto Ōhara25.8%
18 Tōru Shōji29.9%
19 Hiroyuki Eguchi30.0%
20 Makoto Ōhara27.5%
21 Shizuhiro Izuta24.4%
22 Hiroyuki Eguchi27.3%
23 Makoto Ōhara23.3%
24 Makoto Ōhara19.3%
25 Shizuhiro Izuta22.8%
26 Hiroyuki Eguchi22.6%
27 Hiroshi Watanabe25.6%
28 Makoto Ōhara24.5%
29 Hiroyuki Eguchi22.4%
30 Shizuhiro Izuta
31 Makoto Ōhara20.5%
32 Hiroyuki Eguchi23.5%
33 Shizuhiro Izuta26.3%
34 Tōru Shōji24.4%
35 Makoto Ōhara25.0%
36 Hiroshi Watanabe23.7%
37 Hiroyuki Eguchi26.9%
38 Makoto Ōhara25.6%
39 Shizuhiro Izuta26.7%
40 Hiroyuki Eguchi24.1%
41 Takashi Matsuhashi25.5%
42 Makoto Ōhara31.7%
43 Shizuhiro Izuta25.2%
44 Hiroyuki Eguchi27.0%
45 Munehiro Anzai24.2%
46 Makoto Ōhara24.3%
47 Hiroyuki Eguchi26.4%
48 Shizuhiro Izuta24.9%
49 Makoto Ōhara27.7%
50 Hiroyuki Eguchi22.5%
51 Makoto Ōhara28.6%
Avg. Rating: 26.3% | Peak: 34.7%. All episodes still exist, however, 18 out of 51 episodes have distorted images and sound, as well as missing fragments.


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