The 42nd NHK Taiga Drama is MUSASHI. Many Japanese history buffs are familiar with The Book of Five Rings written by Miyamoto Musashi in the 17th century. Musashi's treatise on strategy and the way to lead instantly became the business executive's bible when the translated version hit the bookstores more than three hundred years later.
In 2003, the story of this legendary swordsman-philosopher-painter comes to life in the NHK Taiga Drama MUSASHI. Based on the famous biography written by Yoshikawa Eiji, this taiga drama boasts a list of stars that reads like a Who's Who of screen and television.
Orphaned before he was ten years old, Musashi (his real name is Takezo, so you'll hear his childhood friends call him by that name) grows up skilled in the martial arts. During the Battle of Sekigahara, he fights on the side of the losing Toyotomi forces, but eludes the enemy as they hunt down the vanquished soldiers. He then spends years wandering the countryside mastering the sword, becoming a stronger samurai. As his fame spreads throughout the nation, men seek him out to test their skills against him--most notably Sasaki Kojiro who faces Musashi in the ultimate Duel at Ganryujima.
戦国時代末期から江戸時代にかけての動乱の世を駆け抜けた剣豪、宮本武蔵。人間が誰しも持っている弱さを克服し、己の道を切り開いていく一人の人間像を、お通との恋や又八との友情を中心に丹念に描く。主演は市川新之助（１１代目・海老蔵）、親友の本位田又八を堤真一、幼なじみの恋人・お通を米倉涼子、ライバルの佐々木小次郎を松岡昌宏が演じた。
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