Ōgon no Hibi

Japanese TV series or program

Ichikawa Somegorō VI
Komaki Kurihara
Ryuzo Hayashi
Jinpachi Nezu
Takuzo Kawatani
Masako Natsume
Keiko Takeshita
Takeshi Kaga
Akira Onodera
Masahiko Tsugawa
Jukichi Uno
Takashi Shimura
Shigeru Kōyama
Kazuo Kitamura
Taketoshi Naito
Kiyoshi Kodama
Masaomi Kondō
Shiho Fujimura
Yukiyo Toake
Kōji Takahashi
Ken Ogata
Tetsurō Tamba
Kōji Tsuruta
Matsumoto Kōshirō VIII

Opening themeNHK Symphony OrchestraComposerShin'ichirō IkebeCountry of originJapanOriginal languageJapaneseNo. of episodes51ProductionRunning time45 minutesOriginal releaseNetworkNHKReleaseJanuary 8 (1978-01-08) –
December 24, 1978 (1978-12-24)

Ōgon no Hibi (黄金の日日, Golden Days) is a 1978 Japanese television series. It is the 16th NHK taiga drama, and is based on Saburo Shiroyama's novel of the same title.^[1]^[2]^[3] The series is the first taiga drama to focus on the lives of commoners and merchants, and the first taiga drama to be filmed outside Japan.^[4]

It had the average viewership rating of 25.9% with the peak reaching 34.4%.^[5] All episodes still exist.

Plot

It depicts the lives of merchants and people of Sakai city in the Sengoku period.^[3]

Cast

The People of Sakai

Ichikawa Somegorō VI as Luzon Sukezaemon
- Atsushi Kurimata as young Sukeza
Komaki Kurihara as Mio
Takuzo Kawatani as Sugitana Zenjūbō
Jinpachi Nezu as Ishikawa Goemon
Kōji Tsuruta as Sen no Rikyū
Tetsurō Tamba as Imai Sōkyū
Ryūzō Hayashi as Imai Sōkun
Masahiko Tsugawa as Tsuda Sōgyū

People of Toyotomi clan

People of Oda clan

Kōji Takahashi as Oda Nobunaga
Taketoshi Naito as Akechi Mitsuhide
Kobayashi Kaori as Oichi
Tadashi Okuno as Oda Nagamasu
Saburō Yokō as Oda Nobukatsu (Kitabatake Nobukatsu)
Shōken Nitta as Shibata Katsuie
Nagatoshi Sakamoto as Niwa Nagahide

Others

Noboru Matsuhashi as Ashikaga Yoshiaki
Vic Vargas
Luis Cangas as Luis Fróis
Matsumoto Kōshirō VIII as Jinbei, Sukezaemon's father
Terumasa Fujima as Sukeza

References

^ "松本幸四郎、栗原小巻が語る今も愛される「黄金の日々」の魅力". dot朝日. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
^ "Ogon no Hibi とは". kotobank. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
^ ^a ^b "Ogon no Hibi". NHK. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
^ Jonathan Clements; Motoko Tamamuro (2003). The Dorama Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese TV Drama Since 1953. Stone Bridge Press. p. 57. ISBN 978-1-880656-81-5.
^ "ビデオリサーチ NHK大河ドラマ過去の視聴率データ". Video Research (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 6 January 2006.