Ten to Chi to (TV series)

Ten to Chi to (天と地と) is a 1969 Japanese television series. It is the 7th NHK taiga drama and the 1st to be televised in color.^[1]

Ten to Chi to
Genre	Taiga drama
Written by	Giho Sugiyama
Directed by	Ei Okazaki etc
Starring	Kōji Ishizaka Fumie Kashiyama Jukichi Uno Ineko Arima Ryūtarō Ōtomo Osamu Takizawa Tamao Nakamura Makoto Fujita Tappie Shimokawa Kunishirō Hayashi Hideo Takamatsu Kōji Takahashi
Theme music composer	Isao Tomita
Opening theme	NHK Symphony Orchestra
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of episodes	52
Production
Running time	45 minutes
Original release
Network	NHK
Release	January 5 (1969-01-05) – December 28, 1969 (1969-12-28)
Related
Momino Kiwa Nokotta

Average viewership rating was 25.0% with the peak of 32.4%.^[2]

Story

Ten to Chi to deals with the Sengoku period. Based on Chōgorō Kaionji's novels "Ten to Chi to".^[3][4] Now only episode 50 and a fragment of episode 2 exist.^[1]

The story chronicles the life of Nagao Kagetora from childhood until the climax of Battle of Kawanakajima against his rival, Takeda Shingen.^[5]

Cast

Nagao/Uesugi clan

• Kōji Ishizaka as Nagao Kagetora
• Osamu Takizawa as Nagao Tamekage
• Takashi Yamaguchi as Nagao Masakage
• Takashi Shimura as Nagao Fusakage
• Jukichi Uno as Usami Sadamitsu
• Etsushi Takahashi as Usami Sadakatsu
• Yū Fujiki as Kakizaki Yajirō
• Hideo Takamatsu as Kanazu Shinbei
• Shirō Itō as Naya Tatsuzo
• Ineko Arima as Mats as Naya Tatsuzoue
• Goichi Yamada as Tokura Yohachiro
• Akira Nagoya as Kakizaki Yosaburo
• Noboru Nakaya as Sugihara Noriie
• Shunya Shimazaki as Kitajō Takahiro
• Yoshi Katō as Shoda Hitachinosuke
• Masakane Yonekura as Katō Danzō
• Taketoshi Naito as Honjō Yoshihide
• Hiroyuki Nagato as Hattori Genki
• Ineko Arima as Matsue
• Michiyo Aratama as Kesagozen

Takeda clan

• Kōji Takahashi as Takeda Shingen
• Masaru Nakamura as Takeda Katsuyori
• Teruhiko Aoi as Takeda Yoshinobu
• Tamao Nakamura as Suwagoryonin
• Jun Tazaki as Takeda Nobutora
• Ryūtarō Ōtomo as Itagaki Nobukata
• Kunishirō Hayashi as Morozumi Torasada
• Tappie Shimokawa as Oyamada Masatatsu
• Akira Yamauchi as Baba Nobuharu
• Kunio Murai as Kōsaka Masanobu

Others

• Ryōtarō Sugi as Oda Nobunaga
• Mitsuo Hamada as Kinoshita Tokichiro
• Ryunosuke Kaneda as Shibata Katsuie
• Seiji Matsuyama as Tokugawa Ieyasu
• Yasukiyo Umeno as Miyoshi Nagayoshi
• Gaku Yamamoto as Ashikaga Yoshiteru
• Shun Ōide as Ashikaga Yoshiaki
• Kazuo Kitamura as Murakami Yoshikiyo
• Makoto Fujita as Naya Heihachiro
• Asao Sano as Konoe Sakihisa
• Kichiemon Nakamura as Saito Dosan
• Tatsuo Matsumura as Ota Sukemasa
• Kohji Moritsugu as Hojo Ujimasa
• Rokkō Toura as Suwa Yorishige
• Masayuki Mori as Kosai