Press conference of 2013 Taiga drama "Yae no Sakura"

The press conference of 2013 Taiga drama "Yae no Sakura" was held on 30 May at NHK Broadcasting Centre which main cast members Ayase Haruka, Hasegawa Hiroki, Nishijima Hidetoshi, Gouriki Ayame, Hasegawa Kyoko, Nishida Toshiyuki, Matsushige Yutaka, Kudo Asuka, Ikeuchi Hiroyuki, Kuroki Meisa, Ayano Go, Inamori Izumi, Tamayama Tetsuji, Saito Takumi and Nakamura Shido attended. Fubuki Jun and Kitamura Yukiya were absent from the event. The drama is scheduled to start filming this summer and will begin its run for a year from January 2013.

"Yae no Sakura" features Ayase as the lead character Niijima Yae, a woman born in the Aizu area of Fukushima Prefecture during the Bakumatsu period who fought during the Boshin war in the Meiji era. After the Meiji Restoration, she became the first nurse who volunteered to help injured soldiers during the First Sino-Japanese war and the Russo-Japanese wars at the frontline. Yae's brother Yamamoto Kakuma will be played by Nishijima while her first husband Kawasaki Shounosuke will be played by Hasegawa Hiroki. Gouriki will act as Yae's childhood friend Hyuga Yuki who is six years younger than her while Kuroki Meisa will be playing Nakano Takeko who is good at everything and a rival of Yae. Kuroki will be giving birth to her first child this autumn so she is expected to join the filming after that. Nishida will be playing Saigo Tanomo, the chief retainer of the Aizu Domain while Matsushige will be Yae's father Yamamoto Gonpachi and Fubuki as Saku, Yae's mother. Hasegawa Kyoko will act as Kakuma's wife Ura while Yae's younger brother is played by Kudo Asuka.
Source: Oricon