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北条政子

北条政子 poster
Genre
Jidaigeki
Country
Japan

How it feels

This is a Japanese period drama about Hojo Masako, a woman from the late Heian period who falls in love with the exiled Minamoto no Yoritomo. She becomes his wife despite opposition, supports him through struggles, and after the deaths of her daughter and husband she becomes a nun and decides to live on as a nun-shogun.

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What happens

『北条政子』(ほうじょうまさこ)はNET系ナショナルゴールデン劇場枠で1970年8月13日から10月15日まで放送されたテレビ時代劇である。 平安時代末期、21歳の北条政子は伊豆の蛭ケ小島に流されていた源頼朝と出会い恋に落ちた。周囲の反対を押し切って頼朝の妻となった政子は夫を支えて奮闘するが、愛娘大姫、頼朝の相次ぐ死の後出家し、尼将軍として生きることを決意する。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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