What Will You Do, Ieyasu?

Japanese TV series or program

Jun Matsumoto
Kasumi Arimura
Junichi Okada
Nanako Matsushima
Keiko Kitagawa
Nao Ōmori
Yuki Yamada
Yosuke Sugino
Rihito Itagaki
Takuma Oto'o
Masahiro Kōmoto
Kanata Hosoda
Win Morisaki
Ryūto Sakuma
Nanoka Hara
Gordon Maeda
Junpei Mizobata
Nakamura Shichinosuke
Alice Hirose
Takayuki Yamada
Tsuyoshi Muro
Kenichi Matsuyama
Emi Wakui
Yutaka Matsushige
Mansai Nomura
Hiroshi Abe

Narrated byShinobu TerajimaComposerHibiki InamotoCountry of originJapanOriginal languageJapaneseNo. of episodes48ProductionRunning time45 minutesOriginal releaseNetworkNHKReleaseJanuary 8 (2023-01-08) –
December 17, 2023 (2023-12-17)

What Will You Do, Ieyasu? (どうする家康, Dousuru Ieyasu, What Would You Do, Ieyasu?^[1])^[2] is a Japanese historical drama television series starring Jun Matsumoto as Tokugawa Ieyasu.^[3]^[4] The series is the 62nd NHK taiga drama.^[5]^[6]

Cast

Starring role

Jun Matsumoto as Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Waku Kawaguchi as Matsudaira Takechiyo (young Ieyasu)

Tokugawa clan

Kasumi Arimura as Sena, Ieyasu's first wife
- Seiko Utsumi as Sena's double
Nanako Matsushima as Odai no Kata, Ieyasu's mother
Kisuke Iida as Matsudaira Hirotada, Ieyasu's father
Kanata Hosoda as Matsudaira Nobuyasu
- Mahoro Terajima as Takechiyo (young Nobuyasu)
Shiori Kubo (Nogizaka46) as Gotoku
- Natsuki Matsuoka as young Gotoku
Ami Touma as Kamehime
- Honoka Yoshida as young Kamehime
Alice Hirose as Lady Oai
Yūtarō Iisaku as Saigō Yoshikatsu
Win Morisaki as Tokugawa Hidetada
- Rihito Shigematsu as Chōmaru (young Hidetada)
Maiko as Gō
- Yūka as young Gō
Yunho as Takechiyo (young Tokugawa Iemitsu)
Aoto Ichimura as Fukumatsu (young Matsudaira Tadayoshi)
Takumi Kizu as Yūki Hideyasu
- Ryūsei Iwata as Ogii (young Hideyasu)
Yutaka Matsushige as Ishikawa Kazumasa
Tae Kimura as Nabe, Kazumasa's wife
The Four Heavenly Kings of the Tokugawa
- Nao Ōmori as Sakai Tadatsugu
- Yuki Yamada as Honda Tadakatsu
- Yosuke Sugino as Sakakibara Yasumasa
- Rihito Itagaki as Ii Naomasa
Kenichi Matsuyama as Honda Masanobu
Yūki Inoue as Honda Masazumi
Issey Ogata as Torii Tadayoshi
Takuma Oto'o as Torii Mototada
Kotone Furukawa as Mochizuki Chiyo, a Kunoichi and a retainer of Takeda Clan, who later became Mototada's second wife
Shinya Kote as Ōkubo Tadayo
Akihito Yoshiie as Ōkubo Tadamasu
Dai Okabe (Hanako) as Hiraiwa Chikayoshi
Takayuki Yamada as Hattori Hanzō
Masahiro Kōmoto as Natsume Yoshinobu, a.k.a. Natsume Hirotsugu
Kazuki Namioka as Honda Tadazane
Subaru Kimura as Watanabe Moritsuna
Tetsuya Chiba as Ōnezumi
Marika Matsumoto as Onna-ōnezumi
Kazuo Kawabata as Anaguma
Tsubaki Nekoze as Toyo
Kana Kita as Oyō
Asahi Seino as Ofū
Shuri Nakamura as Miyo
Rena Matsui as Oman
Katsuya Maiguma as Ōoka Yashirō
Kenta Nitta as Ban Yoshichirō
Takato Yonemoto as Yamada Hachizō
Wakana Matsumoto as Lady Acha
Tatsumasa Murasame as William Adams, a.k.a. Miura Anjin
Takeshi Nadagi as Ina Tadatsugu
Ryōsei Tayama as Konchi'in Sūden
Tetsuo (Waraimeshi) as Hayashi Razan
Maiko Itō
Shinobu Terajima as Lady Kasuga/narrator
Shun Oguri as Nankōbō Tenkai

Imagawa clan

Mansai Nomura as Imagawa Yoshimoto. He was like a father to Ieyasu.
Junpei Mizobata as Imagawa Ujizane
- Kuon Kazui as Tatsuō-maru (young Ujizane)
Mirai Shida as Ito
Atsuro Watabe as Sekiguchi Ujizumi
Miki Maya as Tomoe
Hana Toyoshima as Tane
Nagisa Sekimizu as Otazu
Gōta Watabe as Iio Tsuratatsu
Tōru Nomaguchi as Udono Nagateru
Uta Yorikawa as Udono Ujinaga
Sera Ishida as Udono Ujitsugu
Hiroyuki Amano as Yamada Shin'emon
Kenichi Yajima as Kira Yoshiakira
Miou Tanaka as Okabe Motonobu

Oda clan

Junichi Okada as Oda Nobunaga
- Kira Miura as young Nobunaga
Hiroshi Fujioka as Oda Nobuhide, Nobunaga's father
Yoshi Sakou as Akechi Mitsuhide
Mitsuo Yoshihara as Shibata Katsuie
Tatekawa Danshun as Sakuma Nobumori
Satoshi Tokushige as Ikeda Tsuneoki
Kenta Hamano as Oda Nobukatsu
Tomohiro Yoshida as Oda Nobutaka
Akira Fukuzawa as Niwa Nagahide
Yu Shirota as Mori Nagayoshi
Riku Ōnishi as Mori Ran, a.k.a. Mori Ranmaru
Nozomi Makino as Hirate Masahide
Aoi Hamada as Sanbōshi

Toyotomi clan

Tsuyoshi Muro as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Emi Wakui as Nene
Keiko Kitagawa as Yodo-dono and her mother Oichi
- Tamaki Shiratori as Chacha (young Yodo-dono)
- Yūwa Kamimura as young Oichi
Ryūto Sakuma (HiHi Jets) as Toyotomi Hideyori
Nanoka Hara as Senhime
Atsuko Takahata as Naka
Ryuta Sato as Toyotomi Hidenaga
Maho Yamada as Asahi
Nakamura Shichinosuke II as Ishida Mitsunari
Yasushi Fuchikami as Katō Kiyomasa
Motoki Fukami as Fukushima Masanori
Shugo Oshinari as Ōtani Yoshitsugu
Mansaku Ikeuchi as Konishi Yukinaga
Tsutomu Takahashi as Shima Sakon
Shinnosuke Abe as Kuroda Nagamasa
Kozo Takeda as Hachisuka Iemasa
Rin Amikawa as Tōdō Takatora
Shin'ya Yamamaru as Yamauchi Kazutoyo
Takayuki Hamatsu as Asano Nagamasa
Seminosuke Murasugi as Maeda Gen'i
Yōhei Kumabe as Mashita Nagamori
Ikuma Nagatomo as Natsuka Masaie
Denden as Saishō Jōtai
Masato Yamashita as Toyotomi Hidetsugu
Yoshito Kobashigawa as Hori Hidemasa
Riku Kashima as Kobayakawa Hideaki
Jun'ya Kawashima as Katagiri Katsumoto
Tetsuji Tamayama as Ōno Harunaga
Hacizō Hino as Chōsokabe Morichika
Takuma Sugawara as Mōri Yoshimasa, a.k.a. Mōri Katsunaga
Ryūhei Higashiyama as Ōtani Yoshikatsu
Ken Kurahara as Gotō Matabei
Hisato Kojima as Akashi Teruzumi
Shinobu Otake as Ōkurakyō no Tsubone

Council of Five Elders (Go-Tairō)

Takeda clan

Sanada clan

Kōichi Satō as Sanada Masayuki
Kaito Yoshimura as Sanada Nobuyuki
Yui Narumi as Ina, Nobuyuki's wife and Honda Tadakatsu's daughter
Wataru Hyuga as Sanada Nobushige, later known as Sanada "Saemonosuke" Yukimura

Others

Kōtarō Satomi as Tōyo-shōnin
Ichikawa Udanji III as Kūsei-shōnin
Arata Furuta as Ashikaga Yoshiaki, the final shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate
Yūsuke Ōnuki as Azai Nagamasa
Anne Suzuki as Hatsu
- Rin Furukawa as young Hatsu
Aoi Itō as Azuki
Susumu Terajima as Mizuno Nobumoto
Lily Franky as Hisamatsu Toshikatsu
Kento Nagao (Naniwa Danshi) as Hisamatsu Katsutoshi
Akihiro Kakuta (Tokyo 03) as Matsudaira Masahisa
Nakamura Kankurō VI as Chaya Shirōjirō Kiyonobu and his son Kiyotada
Jin Shirasu as Okudaira Nobumasa
Taiiku Okazaki as Torii Suneemon
Manami Igashira as Otama
Ai Tenshō as Ofū
Amane Tenshō as Orin
Rie Shibata as an old lady selling dumplings.
Kenji Yamagami as Tsuda Sōgyū
Kazu Murakami as Matsui Yūkan
Kyusaku Shimada as Momochi Tanba
Kitarō as Tarao Mitsutoshi
Arisa Nakajima as Ii Hiyo
Taro Suruga as Hōjō Ujimasa
Jun Nishiyama as Hōjō Ujinao
Takahiro as Naoe Kanetsugu
Tsuyoshi Hayakawa as Maeda Toshinaga
Tomonori Mizuno as Hijikata Katsuhisa
Kenji Inoue as Kikkawa Hiroie

TV schedule

Episode	Title	Directed by	Original airdate	Rating
1	"Dousuru Okehazama" (どうする桶狭間)	Taku Katō	January 8, 2023 (2023-01-08)	15.4%
2	"Usagi to Ookami" (兎と狼)	Naoki Murahashi	January 15, 2023 (2023-01-15)	15.3%
3	"Mikawa Heitei-sen" (三河平定戦)		January 22, 2023 (2023-01-22)	14.8%
4	"Kiyosu de Dousuru!" (清須でどうする！)		January 29, 2023 (2023-01-29)	13.9%
5	"Sena Dakkan Sakusen" (瀬名奪還作戦)	Taku Katō	February 5, 2023 (2023-02-05)	12.9%
6	"Zoku Sena Dakkan Sakusen" (続・瀬名奪還作戦)	Takeshi Kawakami	February 12, 2023 (2023-02-12)	13.3%
7	"Washi no Ie" (わしの家)	Michi Ono	February 19, 2023 (2023-02-19)	13.1%
8	"Mikawa-Ikki de Dousuru!" (三河一揆でどうする！)	Takeshi Kawakami	February 26, 2023 (2023-02-26)	12.1%
9	"Mamorubeki Mono" (守るべきもの)	Michi Ono	March 5, 2023 (2023-03-05)	11.8%
10	"Sokushitsu o Dousuru!" (側室をどうする！)	Michi Ono	March 12, 2023 (2023-03-12)	7.2%^[7]
11	"Shingen tono Mitsuyaku" (信玄との密約)	Naoki Murahashi	March 19, 2023 (2023-03-19)	10.9%
12	"Ujizane" (氏真)	Naoki Murahashi	March 26, 2023 (2023-03-26)	11.0%
13	"Ieyasu, Miyako e Yuku" (家康、都へゆく)	Takeshi Kawakami	April 2, 2023 (2023-04-02)	11.0%
14	"Kanegasaki de Dousuru!" (金ヶ崎でどうする！)	Takeshi Kawakami	April 16, 2023 (2023-04-16)	11.4%
15	"Anegawa de Dousuru!" (姉川でどうする！)	Satoshi Tanaka	April 23, 2023 (2023-04-23)	11.1%
16	"Shingen o Okoraseruna" (信玄を怒らせるな)	Taku Katō	April 30, 2023 (2023-04-30)	10.7%
17	"Mikatagahara Kassen" (三方ヶ原合戦)	Michi Ono	May 7, 2023 (2023-05-07)	10.1%
18	"Shin Mikatagahara Kassen" (真・三方ヶ原合戦)	Naoki Murahashi	May 14, 2023 (2023-05-14)	10.9%
19	"Otetsuki shite Dousuru" (お手付きしてどうする)	Taku Katō	May 21, 2023 (2023-05-21)	11.5%
20	"Okazaki Coup d'état" (岡崎クーデター)	Yūdai Noguchi	May 28, 2023 (2023-05-28)	10.4%
21	"Nagashino o Sukue!" (長篠を救え！)	Takeshi Kawakami	June 4, 2023 (2023-06-04)	10.8%
22	"Shitaragahara no Tatakai" (設楽原の戦い)	Satoshi Tanaka	June 11, 2023 (2023-06-11)	10.8%
23	"Sena, Kakusei" (瀬名、覚醒)	Michi Ono	June 18, 2023 (2023-06-18)	10.2%
24	"Tsukiyama e Tsudoe" (築山へ集え)	Taku Katō	June 25, 2023 (2023-06-25)	10.0%
25	"Haruka ni Tōi Yume" (はるかに遠い夢)	Naoki Murahashi	July 2, 2023 (2023-07-02)	10.6%
26	"Burari Fuji Yūran" (ぶらり富士遊覧)	Takeshi Kawakami	July 9, 2023 (2023-07-09)	10.7%
27	"Azuchi-jō no Kettō" (安土城の決闘)	Taku Katō	July 16, 2023 (2023-07-16)	10.0%
28	"Honnō-ji no Hen" (本能寺の変)	Naoki Murahashi	July 23, 2023 (2023-07-23)	12.7%
29	"Iga o Koero!" (伊賀を越えろ！)	Takeshi Kawakami	July 30, 2023 (2023-07-30)	11.5%
30	"Aratanaru Hasha" (新たなる覇者)	Yūdai Noguchi	August 6, 2023 (2023-08-06)	9.4%
31	"Shijō-saidai no Kessen" (史上最大の決戦)	Satoshi Tanaka	August 13, 2023 (2023-08-13)	10.1%
32	"Komaki-Nagakute no Gekitō" (小牧長久手の激闘)	Taku Katō	August 20, 2023 (2023-08-20)	10.2%
33	"Uragirimono" (裏切り者)	Taku Katō	August 27, 2023 (2023-08-27)	10.1%
34	"Toyotomi no Hanayome" (豊臣の花嫁)	Michi Ono	September 3, 2023 (2023-09-03)	11.7%
35	"Yokubō no Kaibutsu" (欲望の怪物)	Naoki Murahashi	September 17, 2023 (2023-09-17)	10.1%
36	"Oai Nikki" (於愛日記)	Naoki Murahashi	September 24, 2023 (2023-09-24)	9.9%
37	"Saraba Mikawa-kashin-dan" (さらば三河家臣団)	Takeshi Kawakami	October 1, 2023 (2023-10-01)	10.1%
38	"Kara-iri" (唐入り)	Toki Kajiwara	October 8, 2023 (2023-10-08)	7.4%
39	"Taikō, Kutabaru" (太閤、くたばる)	Naoki Murahashi	October 15, 2023 (2023-10-15)	10.4%
40	"Tenkabito Ieyasu" (天下人家康)	Yūdai Noguchi	October 22, 2023 (2023-10-22)	11.1%
41	"Gyakushū no Mitsunari" (逆襲の三成)	Satoshi Tanaka	October 29, 2023 (2023-10-29)	10.1%
42	"Tenka Wakeme" (天下分け目)	Takeshi Kawakami	November 5, 2023 (2023-11-05)	10.0%
43	"Sekigahara no Tatakai" (関ヶ原の戦い)	Toki Kajiwara	November 12, 2023 (2023-11-12)	11.9%
44	"Tokugawa-Bakufu Tanjō" (徳川幕府誕生)	Naoki Murahashi	November 19, 2023 (2023-11-19)	11.0%
45	"Futari no Prince" (二人のプリンス)	Satoshi Tanaka	November 26, 2023 (2023-11-26)	11.6%
46	"Ōsaka no Jin" (大坂の陣)	Shūsuke Nakamura	December 3, 2023 (2023-12-03)	11.6%
47	"Ranse no Bōrei" (乱世の亡霊)	Takeshi Kawakami	December 10, 2023 (2023-12-10)	11.0%
48	"Kami no Kimi e" (神の君へ)	Naoki Murahashi	December 17, 2023 (2023-12-17)	12.3%
Average rating 11.2% - Rating is based on Japanese Video Research (Kantō region).^[8]

Omnibus

Episode	Title	Original airdate	Original airtime
1	"Hajimari no Toki" (始まりのとき)	December 29, 2023	13:05 - 14:14
2	"Shiren no Toki" (試練のとき)		14:14 - 15:24
3	"Yakudō no Toki" (躍動のとき)		15:29 - 16:39
4	"Kakugo no Toki" (覚悟のとき)		16:39 - 17:49

References

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