Mouri Motonari (1997)
毛利元就
The 36th NHK Taiga Drama is Mori Motonari. This series chronicles the life of Mori Motonari, a warlord of the early 1500s who stood at the vanguard of the Warring States era. All Japanese school textbooks contain the Mitsuya no kyokun, Mori's famous lesson to his three sons that teaches that while one arrow is easily broken, three arrows together cannot be broken. In 1997, 500 years after his birth, NHK dramatizes Motonari's rise from a chief of the region of Aki (now Hiroshima) to a daimyo who rules over ten provinces of the Chugoku region. Motonari was 64 years old and already the patriarch of a powerful dynasty about the time Oda Nobunaga and Takeda Shingen appeared on the scene. And even after his death, the Mori family figured prominently in Japanese history. His grandson Terumoto became a loyal Toyotomi vassal. Defeated at the Battle of Sekigahara, Ieyasu confiscated most of his lands, leaving him only with Suwo and Nagato, later known as Choshu. But 260 years later, the Mori got their ultimate revenge, leading the imperial forces against the Tokugawa in the Meiji Restoration.
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Seasons
Season 1
Episodes season 1
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1x1
The wives say
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1x2
Young lord raving mad
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1x3
The disqualified castellan
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1x4
A woman's caliber
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1x5
A castle of conspiracy
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1x6
A romance
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1x7
I fled from the enemy
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1x8
A bride who is too good
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1x9
Farewell, my brother
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1x10
His miraculous first battle
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1x11
An angry bride
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1x12
An order to assassinate motonari
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1x13
A child of the war-torn era was born
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1x14
A giant and a baby
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1x15
Turning the tables in tears
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1x16
His younger brother's rebellion
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1x17
A fierce dawn
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1x18
A naval goddess
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1x19
A husband in love
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1x20
An illegitimate woman
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1x21
A million for one heart
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1x22
Three arrows
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1x23
Invasion of the amago
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1x24
Showdown at koriyama castle
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1x25
Amago tsunehisa dies
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1x26
The ghost is our enemy
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1x27
No way out
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1x28
I want to see the ocean
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1x29
Farewell to my child
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1x30
Good-bye, mii
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1x31
Sugi goes to paradise
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1x32
Motonari turns into a demon
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1x33
His sharp knife-like strategy
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1x34
Hannya (jealous female demon) hovering in darkness
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1x35
The last traitor
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1x36
Demon's politics
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1x37
A left-out firefly
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1x38
A decision at age 59
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1x39
Outwitting a plot
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1x40
Storms bring chances
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1x41
A surprise attack at itsukushima
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1x42
His last woman
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1x43
A letter to three sons
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1x44
Dancing for silver
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1x45
Man's caliber
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1x46
Assassinating takamoto
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1x47
An avenging battle
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1x48
Terumoto making a debut
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1x49
A lonely champion
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1x50
Live well, die well
