Thursday, August 08, 2013

Cast announcement press conference of 2014 Taiga drama "Gunshi Kanbee"

The cast announcement press conference of 2014 Taiga drama "Gunshi Kanbee" was held on 7 August which was attended by Uchida Yuki, Kiritani Mirei, Takaoka Saki, Minamisawa Nao, Yoshimoto Miyu, Hayami Mokomichi, Fukikoshi Mitsuru, Shobutei Koasa, Ryu Raita, Shiomi Sansei, Tanaka Tetsushi, Tanaka Kei, Hamada Gaku, Takahashi Issei, Tsukamoto Takashi and Nagai Masaru. Matsuzaka Toori who was down with pneumonia, was absent from the press conference.

V6's Okada Junichi will be playing the lead role of Kuroda Kanbee, a famous military advisor during the Sengoku period while Matsuzaka will play his eldest son Kuroda Nagamasa. When asked about Matsuzaka who he has not met yet, Okada said that he was happy to hear about this since he had the impression Matsuzaka is a cute and lovable guy and wished that the latter would recover soon. Hayami will play Bori Tahee, a vassal of Kanbee and Uchida will play Oda Nobunaga's first wife Ono. Kiritani will be Dashi, the first wife of Araki Murashige. Yoshimoto will make her debut as an actress through a Taiga by playing Nagamasa's concubine Eihime. Fukikoshi will be acting as Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Shobutei will be playing Akechi Mitsuhide and Tanaka will be Ishida Mitsunari.

Source: Sanspo

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

what about minamisawa-san?? pls tell.... onegai.....

Chiaki said...

Minamisawa Nao plays the role of Otatsu, who was the childhood friend and first love of Kanbee.

Anonymous said...

thanks for sharing chaiki!! she's my fav. actress