Shinsengumi!

Shinsengumi! (新選組!) is a 2004 Taiga drama historical fiction television series produced by Japanese broadcaster NHK. It was a popular drama about the Shinsengumi, a Japanese special police force from the Bakumatsu period.

Shinsengumi!
Written by	Kōki Mitani
Starring	Shingo Katori Tatsuya Fujiwara Koji Yamamoto Yūka Joe Odagiri Nakamura Kankurō VI Tarō Yamamoto Masato Sakai Tomomitsu Yamaguchi Takashi Kobayashi Shōei Nakamura Shidō II Tomoko Tabata Kazue Fukiishi Michitaka Tsutsui Shōsuke Tanihara Keiko Toda Goro Ibuki Ken Ishiguro Asahi Kurizuka Tsuyoshi Ihara Noda Hideki Kyōka Suzuki Yōsuke Eguchi Yōko Nogiwa Yasuko Sawaguchi Kōichi Satō Shirō Itō Kunie Tanaka Kōji Ishizaka
Theme music composer	Junichi Hirokami
Opening theme	John Ken Nuzzo and NHK Symphony Orchestra
Composer	Takayuki Hattori
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of episodes	50 (49 + New Year's Special, 2006)
Production
Executive producer	Koji Yoshikawa
Running time	approx. 43 min.
Original release
Network	NHK
Release	January 11 (2004-01-11) – December 12, 2004 (2004-12-12)
Related
Yoshitsune

Actors include Koji Yamamoto, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Joe Odagiri, and Shingo Katori of the pop idol group SMAP. It was written by Japanese director and playwright, Kōki Mitani.

Staff

• Original: Kōki Mitani
• Music: Takayuki Hattori
• Titling: Tansetsu Ogino
• Narrator: Yasuo Kodera
• Historical research: Manabu Ōishi, Tatsuya Yamamura
• Architectural research: Sei Hirai
• Clothing research: Kiyoko Koizumi
• Production coordinator: Kōji Kikkawa
• Casting: Kazuhiko Itō
• Sword fight arranger : Kunishirō Hayashi

Cast

Shinsengumi

• Shingo Katori as Kondō Isami
• Kōji Yamamoto as Hijikata Toshizō
• Tatsuya Fujiwara as Okita Sōji
• Joe Odagiri as Saitō Hajime
• Nakamura Kantarō II as Tōdō Heisuke
• Tarō Yamamoto as Harada Sanosuke
• Masato Sakai as Yamanami Keisuke
• Tomomitsu Yamaguchi as Nagakura Shinpachi
• Takashi Kobayashi as Inoue Genzaburō
• Shoei as Shimada Kai
• Jun Hashimoto as Yamazaki Susumu
• Koji Ohkura as Kawai Kisaburo
• Norito Yashima as Takeda Kanryuusai

Seichū-rōshi gumi

• Kōichi Satō as Serizawa Kamo
• Kazuyuki Aijima as Niimi Nishiki
• Tadashi Sakata as Hirayama Gorō
• Gōshū as Hirama Jūsuke

Itō-dōjō party

• Shōsuke Tanihara as Itō Kashitarō
• Masato Obara as Kanō Washio

Aizu Domain

• Michitaka Tsutsui as Matsudaira Katamori
• Kenichi Yajima as Hirosawa Tomijirō
• Yasuyoshi Hara as Teshirogi Suguemon

Tosa Domain

• Yōsuke Eguchi as Sakamoto Ryōma
• Hiroki Miyake as Mochizuki Kameyata
• Nozomu Masuzawa as Nakaoka Shintarō

Chōshū Domain

• Ken Ishiguro as Kido Takayoshi
• Hiroyuki Ikeuchi as Kusaka Genzui

Satsuma Domain

• Takashi Ukaji as Saigō Takamori
• Yamato Yasumura as Ōkubo Toshimichi
• Takato Gohō as Kuroda Ryōsuke

Tokugawa shogunate

• Tomohiko Imai as Tokugawa Yoshinobu – the last shogun
• Tsuyoshi Ihara as Sasaki Tadasaburō
• Hideki Noda as Katsu Kaishū
• Isao Sasaki as Uchiyama Hikojirō
• Tsuyoshi Kusanagi as Enomoto Takeaki
• Tetsushi Tanaka as Matsumoto Ryōjun

Imperial House

• Nakamura Fukusuke IX as Emperor Kōmei – the 121st emperor
• Yūji Nakamura as Iwakura Tomomi

Others

• Yasuko Sawaguchi as Okita Mitsu - Okita Sōji's eldest sister
• Kōji Ishizaka as Sakuma Shōzan
• Tetsurō Sagawa as Onogawa Hidegorō
• Mainoumi Shūhei as Kumakawa Kuwajirō – a sumo wrestler
• Daishi Nobuyuki as Kurogami – a sumo wrestler
• Jay Kabira as Henry Heusken
• Marty Kuehnert as Townsend Harris
• Yūka as Okō
• Asahi Kurizuka as Hijikata Tamejirō, Toshizō's older brother
• Rei Kikukawa as Ikumatsu

External links

• Shinsengumi! at IMDb
• SHINSENGUMI 新選組 Shinsengumi Website