Title: おしん
Title (romaji): Oshin
Episodes: 297 15-minute episodes
Sub-genre: Human drama
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast period: 1983-Apr-4 to 1984-Mar-31
Viewership ratings: Ep1=39.2, High=62.9, Avg=52.6
Opening theme song: Oshin Main Theme /「おしん」メインテーマ
Original soundtrack (OST): Oshin Original Soundtrack
Synopsis
The 31st NHK Asadora Drama is Oshin.
Oshin tells the story of a girl born in a very poor rural family in Japan, who through hard work and perseverance eventually triumphs over pain and adversity to achieve fame and success. Broadcast in the early 1980s when Japan had finally cast off the legacy of the post-war years and the Japanese were beginning to reap the benefits of economic development, the aim of the story was to recall the hardships the older generation had endured in order to pave the way for their children to enjoy their more affluent lifestyle. Viewers were drawn to the suffering of the main character Oshin – and then drew similarities between her story and their own home lives.
Some Japanese worried that showing Oshin abroad would give the country a bad profile – and would even be shameful because it showed the seldom glimpsed, poor, unequal side of Japan. In the event, the reverse proved true. Oshin gave viewers outside Japan – whose only image of Japan was formed by Japanese cars or electric goods, or through bitter memories of Japanese treatment during World War II – a far better understanding of the modern Japan and its people. — Courtesy, tve.org
Cast
Kobayashi Ayako (小林綾子) as Oshin (6 to 10 years old)
Tanaka Yuko (田中裕子) as Oshin (16 to 46 years old)
Otowa Nobuko (乙羽信子) as Oshin (50 to 84 years old)
Tanimura
Izumi Pinko (泉ピン子) as Fuji (Oshin’s mother)
Ito Shiro (伊東四朗) as Sakuzo (Oshin’s father)
Oji Michio (大路三千緒) as Naka (Oshin’s grandmother)
Yoshioka Yuichi (吉岡祐一) as Shoji (Oshin’s older brother)
Watanabe Eriko (渡辺えり) as Tora (Shoji’s wife)
Sendo Nobuko (仙道敦子) / Senno Hiromi (千野弘美) as Haru (Oshin’s older sister)
Watanabe Fumiko (渡辺富美子) as Riki (family friend)
Tanokura
Namiki Shiro (並樹史朗 / 並木史朗 / 並木史郎) as Ryuzo (Oshin’s husband)
Sato Hideo (佐藤英夫) as Daigoro (Ryuzo’s father, as listed in the NHK book)
Kitamura Kazuo (北村和夫) as Daigoro (Ryuzo’s father)
Takamori Kazuko (高森和子) as Kiyo (Ryozo’s mother)
Kitamura Soichiro (北村総一朗) as Taro (Ryuzo’s older brother)
Kanze Yoko (観世葉子) as Tsuneko (Fukutaro’s wife)
Imafuku Masao (今福将雄) as Imamura Genemon
Ito Takeshi (伊藤毅) -> 萩堂 -> Yamano Reo (山野礼央) -> 槇浩 -> Matsuda Yoji (松田洋治) -> Fuke Norimasa (冨家規政) as Yuu (Oshin’s oldest son)
Yamashita Shinji (山下真司) -> Takahashi Etsushi (高橋悦史) as Hitoshi (Oshin’s son)
Tanaka Misako (田中美佐子) -> Asaji Yoko (浅茅陽子) as Michiko (Hitoshi’s wife)
Kawakami Maiko (川上麻衣子) as Midori (Hitoshi & Michiko’s daughter)
Suzuki Mie (鈴木美恵) as Akane (Hitoshi & Michiko’s daughter)
Yoshino Yukiko (吉野佳子) as Tei
Kirihara Fumio (桐原史雄) as Sakita Tatsunori (husband of Tei)
Nagashima Yuko (長島裕子) → Sasaki Ai (佐々木愛) as Hatsuko (Oshin’s adopted daugther)
Kaga-ya (rice dealer)
Shikiya Aya (志喜屋文) -> Azuma Terumi (東てる美) as Yashiro Kayo (Oshin’s friend – same age)
Nagaoka Teruko (長岡輝子) as Kuni (Kayo’s grandmother)
Kobayashi Chitose (小林千登勢) as Mino (Kayo’s mother)
Ishida Taro (石田太郎) as Seitaro (Kayo’s father)
Nomura Manzo (野村万之丞) as Yatsushiro Nozomi (Kayo’s son)
Ohashi Goro (大橋吾郎) as Kei (Nozomi’s son)
Hairdressing Shop
Watanabe Misako (渡辺美佐子) as Harada Taka (mistress)
Nagawa Shinobu (名川忍) as Ritsu
Tomizawa Michie (富沢美智江) as Natsu
Shimamura Miki (島村美妃) as Kei
Kiuri Mirai (木瓜みらい) as Sode
Maya Yuko (真野ゆうこ) as Sono
Tanaka Setsuko (田中世津子) as Toyo
Screenwriter: Hashida Sugako (橋田壽賀子)
Music: Sakada Koichi (坂田晃一)
Narrator: Naraoka Tomoko (奈良岡朋子)
Producer: Okamoto Yukiko (岡本由紀子 / 小林由紀子)
Directors: Eguchi Hiroyuki (江口浩之) (ep1-6, 55-60), Kobayashi Heihachiro (小林平八郎), Takemoto Minoru (竹本稔) (ep13-18, 49-54, 127-132), Mochizuki Yoshio, Ichiryu Kunihisa, Yoshimura Fumitaka, Ebata Jiro, Oki Kazufumi
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