A typical subpar Mitani Koki Taiga again. A bad and boring depiction of the Hojo clan, rather watch Kusa Moeru instead. The only thing not featured in Kusa Moeru is Kikuchi Rinkoās character Iga no Kata and her teen son Masamura. Battles were a joke especially, Awazu, Dannoura, Hatakeyama rebellion. The costumes were mostly recycled from older Taiga productions thus super boring as well.
Good performances: Koike Eiko as Masako was ok not close to Iwashita Shimaās Masako though.
Sakoda Takaya as Noriyori (finally Noriyori got a bit depth for once)
Hotta Mayu as Hina/Hime no Mae (she was cute, how she met Yoshitoki is historically inaccurate though, he bombarded her with letters in history)
Yamaya Kasumi as Setsu/Wakasa no Tsubone (enthusiastic portrayal)
Yokota Eiji as Wada Yoshimori (best Wada depiction I have ever seen on film)
Yamamoto Koji as Miura Yoshimura (Yamamoto is always excellent in Taiga)
Oguri Shun got better as Yoshitoki when Yae finally was killed.
Suda Masakiās Yoshitsune had many similarities with Homura Tatsuās Yoshitsune.
Bad performances: Oizumi Yo as Yoritomo was insufferable
Aragaki Yuiās Ito Yae role was horrible. Her fictional later relationship with Yoshitoki and her being Yasutokiās mother was gross, Yae was historically his aunt, she was in her 20s and already sleeping around and impregnated by Yoritomo with Sentsurumaru when Yoshitoki was only 11 thus they were not even from the same age group. Yasutokiās mother (Yoshitoki was 20 when Yasutoki was born) was unknown in history.
Sakaguchi Kentaroās Yasutoki was a bland Mary Sue. The real Yasutoki was way more competent and older and more unfaithful to his wife (they divorced in reality and werenāt a good couple as in this Taiga).
Kakizawa Hayato as Sanetomo. This clown Sanetomo had nothing to do with the real Sanetomo. The real Sanetomo was an expert politician (he had a higher political position than his father Yoritomo ever had at age 27) who negotiated with the relatives of his wife at the imperial court, an expert waka poet, a tragic figure and he had a very close and good relationship with his wife Bomon Nobuko who remained a nun after his early death for over 50 years. Rather watch Shinoda Saburoās excellent portrayal of Sanetomo in Kusa Moeru, read the popular Azuma Kagami manga or the Sanetomo and Nobuko novel čØć®čćÆćę®ćć¦ by Sato Shizuku if you want information about Sanetomoās rule.
Seems like it's going to cover more chapters of the manga compare to the 2012 ver, which means we're going to…
Itās definitely more than than the last adaptions but since itās only 10 episodes and since the casting announcements definitely stopped maybe they are testing whether itās successful and then they later adapt arcs like Iemochi for example with new episodes.
The first teaser and pictures look excellent and promising. The cast is amazing so far and seems to be really well chosen. Hope that the rest of the cast is announced soon.
Asada Jiro has written When the last sword is drawn (made into a good movie) and Wachigaiya Itosato (liked the movie adaption with Fujino Ryoko). Thus I will check out this novel adaption as well (despite the story being only comedy this time) especially since the cast looks great.
I hope that the screenwriter (since this seems to be her first work and itās not based on a novel or webcomic etc.) gets another sageuk in the future I loved it. It has one of the most satisfying endings for a show I have seen with the exception of the Once upon a time spinoff Once upon a time in Wonderland.
I also hope that the dvd (since it will be released this December) will be easily accessible.
A really satisfying ending. I loved that everything came to a conclusion. The ending of QD was how such a spiteful person would go. The family was really close and had many good scenes together. The umbrella scenes were perfect and loved the little final scene with Ilyeong XD.
I do not believe Physician Kwon did not love Consort Hwang even if he did use her, He mentioned they may have…
In some alternative universe in which the Queen is an inept ruler and her children evil the Physician could have been written as a 'tragic wronged true heir' who has a star-crossed romance with a concubine of the 'false King' and Uiseong would be the one you should root for. At least this trio still has some tangible motives, the Queen Dowager on the other hand is just spiteful for the sake of being spiteful lol.
I now really wonder what will happen in the final episode. There are still so many open plotlines. However no matter what happens we can all agree that this has to be the end for the Queen Dowager XD.
I love court settings in general but this has to be one of the most entertaining court dramas recently in my opinion. I would love to see more than 16 episodes but hope that the ending will wrap up everything nicely. Loved the characters and how the budget was used. Also the QD is perfect to drive you furious XD.
At the beginning of the second half it recovered but then after too many comedy/domestic scenes and not showing dramatic scenes/battle scenes again it fell apart again (for example see Hatakeyama rebellion).
As a Hojo/Kamakura Shogunate drama Kusa Moeru wins against Kamakura dono in my opinion and the Gempei War was better in Yoshitsune and Taira no Kiyomori.
The only two interesting plotlines to me left are Jokyu War which will happen right at the ending and the actions of Yoshitoki's last wife Iga no Kata/Noe played by Kikuchi Rinko.
Love the cast. From what I have gathered Mayuās character Naho seems to be paired with Nakagawa Taishiās character and Furukawa Kotone is paired with Kitamura Takumi.
Episode 31 was really well done I hope that the tone stays. It is also the first episode in which Yoshitoki finally really resembles his historical counterpart.
Battles were a joke especially, Awazu, Dannoura, Hatakeyama rebellion.
The costumes were mostly recycled from older Taiga productions thus super boring as well.
Good performances:
Koike Eiko as Masako was ok not close to Iwashita Shimaās Masako though.
Sakoda Takaya as Noriyori (finally Noriyori got a bit depth for once)
Hotta Mayu as Hina/Hime no Mae (she was cute, how she met Yoshitoki is historically inaccurate though, he bombarded her with letters in history)
Yamaya Kasumi as Setsu/Wakasa no Tsubone (enthusiastic portrayal)
Yokota Eiji as Wada Yoshimori (best Wada depiction I have ever seen on film)
Yamamoto Koji as Miura Yoshimura (Yamamoto is always excellent in Taiga)
Oguri Shun got better as Yoshitoki when Yae finally was killed.
Suda Masakiās Yoshitsune had many similarities with Homura Tatsuās Yoshitsune.
Bad performances:
Oizumi Yo as Yoritomo was insufferable
Aragaki Yuiās Ito Yae role was horrible. Her fictional later relationship with Yoshitoki and her being Yasutokiās mother was gross, Yae was historically his aunt, she was in her 20s and already sleeping around and impregnated by Yoritomo with Sentsurumaru when Yoshitoki was only 11 thus they were not even from the same age group. Yasutokiās mother (Yoshitoki was 20 when Yasutoki was born) was unknown in history.
Sakaguchi Kentaroās Yasutoki was a bland Mary Sue. The real Yasutoki was way more competent and older and more unfaithful to his wife (they divorced in reality and werenāt a good couple as in this Taiga).
Kakizawa Hayato as Sanetomo. This clown Sanetomo had nothing to do with the real Sanetomo. The real Sanetomo was an expert politician (he had a higher political position than his father Yoritomo ever had at age 27) who negotiated with the relatives of his wife at the imperial court, an expert waka poet, a tragic figure and he had a very close and good relationship with his wife Bomon Nobuko who remained a nun after his early death for over 50 years. Rather watch Shinoda Saburoās excellent portrayal of Sanetomo in Kusa Moeru, read the popular Azuma Kagami manga or the Sanetomo and Nobuko novel čØć®čćÆćę®ćć¦ by Sato Shizuku if you want information about Sanetomoās rule.
I also hope that the dvd (since it will be released this December) will be easily accessible.
The family was really close and had many good scenes together.
The umbrella scenes were perfect and loved the little final scene with Ilyeong XD.
As a Hojo/Kamakura Shogunate drama Kusa Moeru wins against Kamakura dono in my opinion and the Gempei War was better in Yoshitsune and Taira no Kiyomori.
The only two interesting plotlines to me left are Jokyu War which will happen right at the ending and the actions of Yoshitoki's last wife Iga no Kata/Noe played by Kikuchi Rinko.