PEAKFLIX

篤姫

Original title: 篤姫

Year

2008

Rating

★ 9.0/10

Runtime

45 min

Seasons

1

Genres

Drama

The 47th NHK Taiga Drama is a life story of Princess Atsu, who was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, then called Satsuma, and became the wife of Tokugawa Iesada, the 13th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. She accedes to the highest rank in Ooku, the inner palace of the Edo castle where women related to the reigning shogun resided. Iesada dies soon after their marriage and Atsuhime assumes the name Tenshoin at the age of 23. She exerts herself for the Tokugawa clan and for the nation during the upheaval in the Meiji Restoration, headed by those from Satsuma.

Cast: 宮﨑あおい, 永山瑛太, 堀北真希, ともさかりえ, 沢村一樹, Hideki Takahashi, 原田泰造, Kimiko Yo