Inoue Kaoru
On September 1992, BBC Two screened a two-part dramatisation of Satow's life, titled "A Diplomat in Japan" in the "Timewatch" documentary strand. Written and directed by Christopher Railing, it starred Alan Parnaby as Satow, Benjamin Whitrow as Sir Harry Parkes, Hitomi Tanabe as Takeda Kane, Ken Teraizumi as Ito Hirobumi, Takeshi Iba as Inoue Kaoru, and Christian Burgess as Charles Wirgman.