Kusa Moeru (1979)

Original title

草燃える

Cast

Ishizaka Koji, Iwashita Shima, Kunihiro Tomiyuki, Matsudaira Ken, Ikegami Kimiko, Maya Kyoko, Otani Naoko, Oka Mayumi

Genre

drama

Country

Japan

Length

1 season, 51 episodes

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a Japanese historical drama set in the feudal era. It follows political conflicts and personal relationships among samurai and court figures. The story focuses on power struggles and social customs of the time.

historicalformalmethodicalseriousepiceducationalslow-pacedtraditional

What happens

Kusa Moeru (草燃える) is a 1979 Japanese television series. It is the 17th NHK taiga drama. It is also the first Taiga drama to standardize the use of modern language in dialogue starting with this one onward. On the other hand, characters did not use first names to address others as it was considered disrespectful historically, instead used people's common names and court ranks as was custom for the time. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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