# Dokuganryū Masamune

Dokuganryū Masamune (独眼竜政宗) is a 1987 Japanese historical television series. It is the 25th NHK taiga drama. The broadcast received an average viewer rating of 39.7 percent in the Kanto area with the highest viewing rating of 47.8%. The drama was adapted from the novel of Sōhachi Yamaoka.

## Plot

The drama takes place during the late Sengoku and early Edo periods.
It chronicles the life of Date Masamune, from before his birth until his death.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan in 1590, but Date Masamune did not abandon his ambition to rule the nation at every possible opportunity.

## Production

* Original – Sōhachi Yamaoka
* Music – Shin’ichirō Ikebe
* Historical research – Keizō Suzuki
* Sword fight arranger - Kunishirō Hayashi
* Supervisor - Yasumune Date

## Cast
### Starring role

* Ken Watanabe as Date Masamune, the one-eyed dragon
** Ryota Fujima (later Fujima Kanjuro VIII) as Bontenmaru (child Masamune)
** Eiji Shima as Tojiro (pre-teen Masamune)

### Date clan

* Kin'ya Kitaōji as Date Terumune, Masamune's father
* Shima Iwashita as Yoshihime, Masamune's mother
* Junko Sakurada as Megohime (adult), Masamune's wife
** Kumiko Goto as Megohime (teenager)
* Tomokazu Miura as Date Shigezane, Masamune's cousin
* Raita Ryū as Date Sanemoto, Shigezane's father
* Teruhiko Saigō as Katakura Kojūrō, Masamune's most trusted vassal
* Keiko Takeshita as Katakura Kita, Kojūrō's half-sister
* Mikiko Otonashi as Tsuta, Kojūrō's wife
* Kenichi Okamoto as Date Kojirō, Masamune's younger brother
* Kumiko Akiyoshi as Iizaka no Tsubone, also known as Neko Gozen
* Yasuko Sawaguchi as Iroha, Masamune's first daughter
* Chosuke Ikariya as Oniniwa Sagetsu
* Takehiro Murata Oniniwa Tsunamoto
* Shigeru Kōyama as Endō Motonobu
* Kyōzō Nagatsuka as Rusu Masakage
* Mitsuru Hirata as Suzuki Motonobu
* Minori Terada as Ōuchi Sadatsuna
* Machiko Washio as Ochako
* Nobuo Yana as Munefuyu Murata
* Shirō Sano as Goto Nobuyasu
* Issey Ogata as Kokubu Morishige
* Hironobu Nomura as Date Tadamune, Masamune's second son
* Michiko Godai as Tose, Shigezane's wife
* Muneyuki Satō as Hasekura Tsunenaga
* Dai Nagasawa as Nakajima Munemoto

### Mogami clan

* Yoshio Harada as Mogami Yoshiaki
* Imafuku Masao as Mogami Yoshimori
* Kaori Sakagami as Komahime, Yoshiaki's second daughter

### Toyotomi clan

* Shintaro Katsu as Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the ruler of Japan
* Kaoru Yachigusa as Nene
* Kanako Higuchi as Yodo-dono, Hideyori's mother
* Eiji Okuda as Ishida Mitsunari
* Kisuke Yamashita as Toyotomi Hideyori, Hideyoshi's son
* Maiko Itō as Senhime
* Yoichi Hayashi as Asano Nagamasa
* Takanori Jinnai as Toyotomi Hidetsugu
* Yumiko Nogawa as Asahi no kata
* Takaaki Enoki as Ōno Harunaga
* Minoru Ōki as Maeda Toshiie
* Ken Teraizumi as Gamō Ujisato
* Gō Wakabayashi as Sanada Yukimura
* Tatsuo Matsumura as Katagiri Katsumoto
* Nobuyuki Katsube as Gotō Matabei
* Makoto Yuasa as Maeda Gen'i

### Tokugawa clan

* Masahiko Tsugawa as Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate
* Hiroyuki Sanada as Matsudaira Tadateru, Iroha's husband
* Hiroshi Katsuno as Tokugawa Hidetada
* Shin Takuma as Tokugawa Iemitsu
* Junichi Nitta as Yūki Hideyasu
* Renji Ishibashi as Yagyū Munenori

### Tamura clan

* Akira Kubo as Tamura Kiyoaki, Megohime's father
* Isao Yamagata as Mukaidate Takumi

### Others

* Hideji Ōtaki as Kosai Sōitsu
* Ryūnosuke Kaneda as Ōkubo Nagayasu
* Ryō Ikebe as Sen no Rikyū
* Kei Tani as Imai Sōkun
* José Cardini as Luis Sotelo
* Joe Grace as Sebastián Vizcaíno
* Gentarō Ishida as Hatakeyama Yoshitsugu
* Hiroshi Arikawa as Shinjō Danjō
* Shinichi Tsutsumi as Ashina Yoshihiro
* Ryūzaburō Ōtomo as Kubota Jūrō
* Shin Aomori as Furukawa Danjō

## Television schedule

| Episode | Original airdate | Title | Directed by | Rating |
| 1 | January 4, 1987 (1987-01-04) | "Birth" (誕生, Tanjō) | Masahiro Higuchi | 28.7% |
| 2 | January 11, 1987 (1987-01-11) | "Fudō Myō'ō" (不動明王, Fudō Myō'ō) | Masahiro Higuchi | 36.9% |
| 3 | January 18, 1987 (1987-01-18) | "Parental Love" (親ごころ, Oya Gokoro) | Yoshiyuki Yoshimura | 40.7% |
| 4 | January 25, 1987 (1987-01-25) | "Coming-of-age Ceremony" (元服, Genpuku) | Yoshiyuki Yoshimura | 37.9% |
| 5 | February 1, 1987 (1987-02-01) | "Megohime" (愛姫, Megohime) | Masahiro Higuchi | 42.0% |
| 6 | February 8, 1987 (1987-02-08) | "Handmaidens Punishment" (侍女成敗, Jijo Seibai) | Masahiro Higuchi | 45.8% |
| 7 | February 15, 1987 (1987-02-15) | "First Battle" (初陣, Uijin) | Yoshiyuki Yoshimura | 43.0% |
| 8 | February 22, 1987 (1987-02-22) | "Young Warrior" (若武者, Wakamusha) | Yoshiyuki Yoshimura | 45.2% |
| 9 | March 1, 1987 (1987-03-01) | "Ambition" (野望, Yabō) | Masahiro Higuchi | 43.4% |
| 10 | March 8, 1987 (1987-03-08) | "A Man's Ability" (男の器量, Otoko no Kiryō) | Masahiro Higuchi | 43.7% |
| 11 | March 15, 1987 (1987-03-15) | "Slaughter of Eight Hundred" (八百人斬り, Happyakunin-giri) | Yoshiyuki Yoshimura | 46.9% |
| 12 | March 22, 1987 (1987-03-22) | "Terumune's Cold-blooded Tragedy" (輝宗無残, Terumune Muzan) | Yoshiyuki Yoshimura | 43.1% |
| 13 | March 29, 1987 (1987-03-29) | "Hitotoribashi" (人取橋, Hitotori-bashi) | Yoshiki Nishimura | 41.2% |
| 14 | April 5, 1987 (1987-04-05) | "Declared Victor" (勝ち名乗り, Kachinanori) | Masahiro Higuchi | 36.5% |
| 15 | April 12, 1987 (1987-04-12) | "Mego and Neko" (めごとねこ, Mego to Neko) | Yoshiyuki Yoshimura | 35.9% |
| 16 | April 19, 1987 (1987-04-19) | "Enemy of the North and South" (南北の敵, Nanboku no Teki) | Yoshiyuki Yoshimura | 35.1% |
| 17 | April 26, 1987 (1987-04-26) | "Court Service" (宮仕え, Miyazukae) | Yukinori Kida | 40.3% |
| 18 | May 3, 1987 (1987-05-03) | "Lady of the East's Stand" (お東、居座る, Ohigashi, Isuwaru) | Masahiro Higuchi | 36.9% |
| 19 | May 10, 1987 (1987-05-10) | "Great Migration" (大移動, Dai-idō) | Yoshiki Nishimura | 35.0% |
| 20 | May 17, 1987 (1987-05-17) | "Decisive Battle, Suriagehara" (決戦、摺上原, Kessen, Suriagehara) | Yoshiyuki Yoshimura | 44.7% |
| 21 | May 24, 1987 (1987-05-24) | "A Mother's Strife" (修羅の母, Shura no Haha) | Yoshiyuki Yoshimura | 36.5% |
| 22 | May 31, 1987 (1987-05-31) | "Kill My Younger Brother" (弟を斬る, Otōto wo Kiru) | Masahiro Higuchi | 38.6% |
| 23 | June 7, 1987 (1987-06-07) | "To Odawara" (小田原へ, Odawara e) | Masahiro Higuchi | 39.9% |
| 24 | June 14, 1987 (1987-06-14) | "Ruler of the Nation" (天下人, Tenkabito) | Yoshiyuki Yoshimura | 39.2% |
| 25 | June 21, 1987 (1987-06-21) | "Mego as Hostage" (人質、めご, Hitojichi, Mego) | Yoshiyuki Yoshimura | 37.2% |
| 26 | June 28, 1987 (1987-06-28) | "Desperate Situation" (絶体絶命, Zettai Zetsumei) | Yoshiki Nishimura | 39.7% |
| 27 | July 5, 1987 (1987-07-05) | "Golden Cross" (黄金の十字架, Ōgon no Jūjika) | Yoshiki Nishimura | 37.1% |
| 28 | July 12, 1987 (1987-07-12) | "Competition of Wits" (知恵くらべ, Chie Kurabe) | Masahiro Higuchi | 45.5% |
| 29 | July 19, 1987 (1987-07-19) | "Demotion" (左遷, Sasen) | Masahiro Higuchi | 41.0% |
| 30 | July 26, 1987 (1987-07-26) | "Dandy" (伊達者, Datesha) | Yoshiyuki Yoshimura | 35.1% |
| 31 | August 2, 1987 (1987-08-02) | "Blessed With Children" (子宝, Kodakara) | Yoshiyuki Yoshimura | 36.3% |
| 32 | August 9, 1987 (1987-08-09) | "Hidetsugu's Downfall" (秀次失脚, Hidetsugu Shikkyaku) | Yoshiki Nishimura | 35.2% |
| 33 | August 16, 1987 (1987-08-16) | "False Accusations" (濡れ衣, Nureginu) | Masahiro Higuchi | 37.5% |
| 34 | August 23, 1987 (1987-08-23) | "Taikō's Death" (太閤の死, Taikō no Shi) | Yoshiyuki Yoshimura | 36.8% |
| 35 | August 30, 1987 (1987-08-30) | "Shigezane Disappears" (成実失踪, Shigezane Shissō) | Yoshiyuki Yoshimura | 36.6% |
| 36 | September 6, 1987 (1987-09-06) | "Decisive Battle" (天下分け目, Tenka Wakeme) | Yoshiki Nishimura | 36.9% |
| 37 | September 13, 1987 (1987-09-13) | "One Million Koku Fantasy" (幻の百万石, Maboroshi no Hyakuman-goku) | Akio Suwabe | 43.0% |
| 38 | September 20, 1987 (1987-09-20) | "Sendai Castle Construction" (仙台築城, Sendai Chikujō) | Yukinori Kida | 39.7% |
| 39 | September 27, 1987 (1987-09-27) | "Iroha Marries" (五郎八、嫁ぐ, Iroha, Totsugu) | Yoshiyuki Yoshimura | 38.8% |
| 40 | October 4, 1987 (1987-10-04) | "Great Shipbuilding" (大船造り, Ōfuna-zukuri) | Yoshiyuki Yoshimura | 32.9% |
| 41 | October 11, 1987 (1987-10-11) | "Embarking Overseas" (海外雄飛, Kaigai Hiyū) | Masahiro Higuchi | 41.3% |
| 42 | October 18, 1987 (1987-10-18) | "Attack on Ōsaka" (大坂攻め, Ōsaka-zeme) | Masahiro Higuchi | 42.3% |
| 43 | October 25, 1987 (1987-10-25) | "Neko, To Uwajima" (ねこ、宇和島へ, Neko, Uwajima e) | Yukinori Kida | 43.7% |
| 44 | November 1, 1987 (1987-11-01) | "Ōsaka's Summer Siege" (大坂夏の陣, Ōsaka Natsu no Jin) | Yoshiyuki Yoshimura | 40.8% |
| 45 | November 8, 1987 (1987-11-08) | "Two Fathers" (ふたりの父, Futari no Chichi) | Akio Suwabe | 44.1% |
| 46 | November 15, 1987 (1987-11-15) | "Divorce Notice" (離縁状, Rienjō) | Masahiro Higuchi | 41.5% |
| 47 | November 22, 1987 (1987-11-22) | "Vice Shōgun of the World" (天下の副将軍, Tenka no Fuku-shōgun) | Yukinori Kida | 38.9% |
| 48 | November 29, 1987 (1987-11-29) | "Date-style Perverseness" (伊達流へそ曲がり, Date-ryū Hesomagari) | Yoshiyuki Yoshimura | 40.7% |
| 49 | December 6, 1987 (1987-12-06) | "I Miss My Mother" (母恋い, Hahagoi) | Yoshiyuki Yoshimura | 44.2% |
| 50 | December 13, 1987 (1987-12-13) | "Peaceful Death" (大往生, Daiōjō) | Masahiro Higuchi | 47.8% |
| Average rating 39.7% - Rating is based on Japanese Video Research (Kantō region). |||||