Saka no ue no kumo
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Profile
- TV Show: A Cloud Upon a Slope
- Romaji: Saka no ue no kumo
- Japanese: 坂の上の雲
- Director: Takeshi Shibata, Takashi Isshiki
- Writer: Ryotaro Shiba (novel), Hisashi Nozawa
- Network: NHK
- Episodes: 13
- Release Date: Novemebr 29 2009 --, Fall 2010, Fall 2011
- Runtime: 90 minutes per episode
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
"Saka no ue no kumo" centers around Yoshifuru Akiyama (Hiroshi Abe), his older brother Saneyuki Akiyama (Masahiro Motoki), and poet Masaoka Shiki (Teruyuki Kagawa) during the Russo-Japanese War. The drama depicts Japan's modernization in the Meiji era through the help of the Akiyama brothers.
Notes
- "Saka no ue no kumo" is based on a novel by Ryotaro Shiba.
- The drama is a 13-part drama series that will be shown over a three year period (autumn 2009, autumn 2010, autumn 2011).
- Filming for the drama will take more than three years (starting in November 2007 and concluding in 2010).
- Scenes involving Czar Nicholas II will be filmed in Russia (starting at the Ekaterina Palace in St. Petersburg in January, 2008).
- Some scenes will also be filmed in China.
Cast
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| Masahiro Motoki | Hiroshi Abe | Teruyuki Kagawa | Miho Kanno |
| Saneyuki Akiyama | Yoshifuru Akiyama | Shiki Masaoka | Ritsu Masaoka |
Additional Cast Members:
- Takako Matsu - Tami Akiyama (Yoshifuru's wife)
- Shiro Ito - Hisataka Akiyama (father)
- Keiko Takeshita - Sada Akiyama (mother)
- Yukiyoshi Ozawa - Soseki Natsume
- Shohei Tanaka - Yoshifuru Akiyama (child)
- Shota Sometani - Yoshifuru Akiyama (teen)
- Ren Kobayashi - Saneyuki Akiyama (child)
- Riko Yoshida - Ritsu Masaoka (child)
- Yukiyoshi Ozawa - Soseki Natsume
- Tsurutaro Kataoka - Rokuro Yashiro
- Tetsuya Watari - Heihachiro Togo
- Toshiyuki Nishida - Korekiyo Takahashi
- Go Kato - Hirobumi Ito
- Jun Kunimura - Soroku Kawakami
- Hideki Takahashi - Gentaro Kodama
- Daijiro Tsutsumi - Shogo Iguchi
- Koji Matoba - Gaishi Nagaoka
- Takahiro Fujimoto - Takeo Hirose
- Naoto Takenaka - Jutaro Komura
- Mieko Harada - Yae Masaoka
- Ren Osugi - Munemitsu Mutsu
- Takaaki Enoki - Ogai Mori
- Atsushi Miyauchi - Shigeta Fujii
- Taiga Morikubo - Zenshiro
- Takaki Uda - Sokotsu Samukawa
- Takashika Kobayashi - Junichi Kiyokawa
- Fumito Moriwaki
- Matsunosuke Shofukutei
- Takeshi Obayashi
