Shin Heike Monogatari | |
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Genre | Taiga drama |
Written by | Yumie Hiraiwa |
Starring |
Tatsuya Nakadai Tamao Nakamura Ken Ogata Tsutomu Yamazaki Masakazu Tamura Mikio Narita Makoto Fujita Taro Shigaki Akiko Koyama Michiyo Aratama Kōji Takahashi Shinsuke Ashida Komaki Kurihara Masako Izumi Eitaro Ozawa Ayako Wakao Masayuki Mori Osamu Takizawa |
Theme music composer | Isao Tomita |
Opening theme | NHK Symphony Orchestra |
Country of origin | Japan |
Original language | Japanese |
No. of episodes | 52 |
Production | |
Running time | 45 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | NHK |
Release | January 2 December 24, 1972 | –
Related | |
Shin Heike Monogatari (film) |
Shin Heike Monogatari (新・平家物語) is a 1972 Japanese television series. It is the tenth NHK taiga drama. [1]
Average viewership rating: 24.1%. Highest viewership peak: 27.2%. [2] Episodes 46 and 52 still exist in black and white.
Shin Heike Monogatari deals with the Genpei War in late Heian period. Based on Eiji Yoshikawa's novel by the same title. [3] [4]
The story chronicles the life of Taira no Kiyomori. [5]