Mouri Motonari

📊 Series Specifications

Network NHK
Episode Runtime ~60 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 50
Original Language JA

Mouri Motonari (1997)

⭐ 4.5 / 5 (1 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 50 Episodes 🏷️ Drama, War & Politics 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

The 36th NHK Taiga Drama is Mori Motonari. This series chronicles the life of Mori Motonari, a warlord of the early 1500s who stood at the vanguard of the Warring States era. All Japanese school textbooks contain the Mitsuya no kyokun, Mori's famous lesson to his three sons that teaches that while one arrow is easily broken, three arrows together cannot be broken. In 1997, 500 years after his birth, NHK dramatizes Motonari's rise from a chief of the region of Aki (now Hiroshima) to a daimyo who rules over ten provinces of the Chugoku region. Motonari was 64 years old and already the patriarch of a powerful dynasty about the time Oda Nobunaga and Takeda Shingen appeared on the scene. And even after his death, the Mori family figured prominently in Japanese history. His grandson Terumoto became a loyal Toyotomi vassal. Defeated at the Battle of Sekigahara, Ieyasu confiscated most of his lands, leaving him only with Suwo and Nagato, later known as Choshu. But 260 years later, the Mori got their ultimate revenge, leading the imperial forces against the Tokugawa in the Meiji Restoration.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 The Wives Say
E2 Young Lord Raving Mad
E3 The Disqualified Castellan
E4 A Woman's Caliber
E5 A Castle of Conspiracy
E6 A Romance
E7 I Fled From the Enemy
E8 A Bride Who is Too Good
E9 Farewell, My Brother
E10 His Miraculous First Battle
E11 An Angry Bride
E12 An Order To Assassinate Motonari
E13 A Child of the War-torn Era Was Born
E14 A Giant and A Baby
E15 Turning the Tables in Tears
E16 His Younger Brother's Rebellion
E17 A Fierce Dawn
E18 A Naval Goddess
E19 A Husband in Love
E20 An Illegitimate Woman
E21 A Million for One Heart
E22 Three Arrows
E23 Invasion of the Amago
E24 Showdown at Koriyama Castle
E25 Amago Tsunehisa Dies
E26 The Ghost is Our Enemy
E27 No Way Out
E28 I Want To See the Ocean
E29 Farewell to My Child
E30 Good-bye, Mii
E31 Sugi Goes To Paradise
E32 Motonari Turns Into a Demon
E33 His Sharp Knife-Like Strategy
E34 Hannya (Jealous Female Demon) Hovering in Darkness
E35 The Last Traitor
E36 Demon's Politics
E37 A Left-out Firefly
E38 A Decision at Age 59
E39 Outwitting a Plot
E40 Storms Bring Chances
E41 A Surprise Attack at Itsukushima
E42 His Last Woman
E43 A Letter to Three Sons
E44 Dancing for Silver
E45 Man's Caliber
E46 Assassinating Takamoto
E47 An Avenging Battle
E48 Terumoto Making a Debut
E49 A Lonely Champion
E50 Live Well, Die Well