The 13 Lords of the Shogun

2022 taiga drama about Hōjō Yoshitoki

Shun Oguri
Yui Aragaki
Masaki Suda
Eiko Koike
Kentaro Sakaguchi
Kōji Seto
Taishi Nakagawa
Mayu Hotta
Eiji Yokota
Shin'ya Niiro
Emma Miyazawa
Yoshihiro Nozoe
Daichi Kaneko
Hayato Kakizawa
Onoe Matsuya II
Rinko Kikuchi
Nakamura Shidō II
Jiro Sato
Mitsuko Kusabue
Jun Kunimura
Bandō Yajūrō
Koji Yamamoto
Rie Miyazawa
Koichi Sato
Yo Oizumi
Toshiyuki Nishida

Narrated byMasami NagasawaTheme music composerEvan CallComposerEvan CallCountry of originJapanOriginal languageJapaneseNo. of episodes48ProductionRunning time45 minutesOriginal releaseNetworkNHKReleaseJanuary 9 (2022-01-09) –
December 18, 2022 (2022-12-18)

The 13 Lords of the Shogun (鎌倉殿の13人, Kamakura-dono no Jūsan-nin) is a Japanese historical drama television series starring Shun Oguri as Hōjō Yoshitoki.^[1] The series is the 61st NHK taiga drama.^[2]^[3]

Cast

Starring role

Shun Oguri as Hōjō Yoshitoki. Kōki Mitani pointed out some similarities between him and Michael Corleone.^[4]^[5]

Hōjō clan

Eiko Koike as Hōjō Masako, Yoshitoki's older sister
Bandō Yajūrō as Hōjō Tokimasa, Yoshitoki's father
Rie Miyazawa as Maki no Kata, a.k.a. Riku, Yoshitoki's stepmother
Kataoka Ainosuke VI as Hōjō Munetoki, Yoshitoki's older brother
Emma Miyazawa as Awa no Tsubone, a.k.a. Mii, Yoshitoki's younger sister
Kentaro Sakaguchi as Hōjō Yasutoki, Yoshitoki and Yae's son
- Yurito Mori as Kongō (young Yasutoki)
Momoko Fukuchi as Hatsu, Yasutoki's wife
Kōji Seto as Hōjō Tokifusa, Yoshitoki's younger brother
Mayu Hotta as Hina, a.k.a. Hime no Mae, Yoshitoki's second wife
Takeru Nishimoto (Super Size Me) as Hōjō Tomotoki, Yoshitoki and Hina's son
Rinko Kikuchi as Noe, a.k.a. Iga no Kata, Yoshitoki's third wife
Taisuke Niihara as Hōjō Masamura, Yoshitoki and Noe's son
Tsubasa Nakagawa as Hōjō Masanori, Yoshitoki's half-brother
Rikako Yagi as Kiku, Yoshitoki's half-sister
Ichika Osaki as Aki, Yoshitoki's half-sister
Masaki Murakami as Inage Shigenari, Aki's husband
Hiroyuki Takagishi (Timon D) as Nitta Tadatsune
Kizuki as Tsurumaru (later known as Taira no Moritsuna)
- Haruto Satō as young Tsurumaru
Takashi Yamanaka as Hiraga Tomomasa

Minamoto clan

Yo Oizumi as Minamoto no Yoritomo, Masako's husband and the first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate.
Masaki Suda as Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Yoritomo's younger brother
Sō Kaku as Benkei
Shizuka Ishibashi as Shizuka Gozen, Yoshitsune's mistress
Tōko Miura as Sato, Yoshitsune's wife
Daichi Kaneko as Minamoto no Yoriie, the second shogun
- Sōma Torigoe as Manju (young Yoriie)
Kana Kita as Tsutsuji, Yoriie's wife
Kasumi Yamaya as Setsu, a.k.a. Lady Wakasa, Yoriie's concubine
Sōta Aizawa as Ichiman
Hayato Kakizawa as Minamoto no Sanetomo, the third shogun
- Kiara Minegishi as Senman (young Sanetomo)
Konatsu Katō as Chiyo, Sanetomo's wife
Sara Minami as Ōhime
- Miyuko Ochii as young Ōhime
Yuno Ōta as Sanman
Kan'ichirō as Kōgyō, commonly known as Kugyō.
- Rinto Takahira as Zenzai (young Kōgyō, around 10 years old)
- Tsubasa Nagao as Zenzai (young Kōgyō, around 5 years old)
Takaya Sakoda as Minamoto no Noriyori
Shin'ya Niiro as Ano Zenjō
Kaito Kobayashi as Ano Raizen
Yūsaku Mori as Ano Tokimoto
Tetta Sugimoto as Minamoto no Yukiie
Noriko Eguchi as Kame
Songha as Gien

Shinano

Munetaka Aoki as Kiso Yoshinaka
Ichikawa Somegorō VIII as Kiso Yoshitaka
Sayaka Akimoto as Tomoe Gozen
Yū Machida as Imai Kanehira

Kai

Norito Yashima as Takeda Nobuyoshi
Kō Maehara as Ichijō Tadayori

The 13 lords of the Shogun (other than Yoshitoki and Tokimasa)

Jiro Sato as Hiki Yoshikazu
Nakamura Shidō II as Kajiwara Kagetoki
Yoshihiro Nozoe as Adachi Morinaga
Eiji Yokota as Wada Yoshimori
Hideo Kurihara as Ōe no Hiromoto
Takashi Kobayashi as Miyoshi Yasunobu
Hayato Ichihara as Hatta Tomoie
Yasuhiro Ōno as Adachi Tōmoto
Jun'ya Kawashima as Nakahara no Chikayoshi
Isao Nonaka as Nikaidō Yukimasa
B-saku Satō as Miura Yoshizumi, Yoshimura's father

Other eastern samurai and their families

Sagami

Koji Yamamoto as Miura Yoshimura
Tatsuya Kishida as Miura Taneyoshi
Taiga Komie as Komawaka-maru (later known as Miura Mitsumura)
Jun Kunimura as Ōba Kagechika
Kenji Anan as Doi Sanehira
Makiya Yamaguchi as Yamanouchisudō Tsunetoshi
Taka Takao as Okazaki Yoshizane
Suon Kan as Sasaki Hideyoshi
Takahiro Kimata as Sasaki Sadatsuna
Hiroki Ezawa as Sasaki Tsunetaka
Kazuya Masuda as Sasaki Moritsuna
Tsuyoshi Mitera as Sasaki Takatsuna
Hiroaki Hirata as Satake Yoshimasa
Reiya Masaki as Kajiwara Kagesue
Eishin as Asahina Yoshihide
Masaki Naitō as Wada Yoshinao
Yūdai Hayashi as Wada Yoshishige
Gaku Hosokawa as Wada Tanenaga

Izu

Kazuyuki Asano as Itō Sukechika
Terunosuke Takezai as Itō Sukekiyo
Yui Aragaki as Yae, Yoritomo's first wife and Yoshitoki's first wife.
Keisei Ōta as Sentsurumaru
Zen Kajihara as Zenji, an assassin
Chihiro Yamamoto as Tō
- Airi Takahashi as young Tō
Yoshiyuki Tsubokura (Wagaya) as Kudō Suketsune
Takato Yonemoto as Kudō Shigemitsu
Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi as Kawazu Sukeyasu
Kazuya Tanabe as Soga Jūrō
- Eishi Ōfuji as Ichiman (young Jūrō)
Shunsuke Tanaka as Soga Gorō
- Kōki Kagaya as Hako'ō (young Gorō)
Tateto Serizawa as Ema Jirō, Yae's second husband
Kazutoyo Yoshimi as Tsusumi Nobutō
Takuma Nagao as Tōnai Mitsuzumi

Musashi

Taishi Nakagawa as Hatakeyama Shigetada
Mei Fukuda as Chie, Yoshitoki's half-sister and Shigetada's wife.
Rairu Sugita as Hatakeyama Shigeyasu
Keiko Horiuchi as Michi
Mitsuko Kusabue as Hiki no Ama
Eiki Narita as Hiki Tokikazu
Kaito as Hiki Munetomo

Bōsō

Kōichi Satō as Kazusa Hirotsune
Nobuto Okamoto as Chiba Tsunetane

Awa

Manabu Ino as Anzai Kagemasu
Kōji Kurosawa as Nagasa Tsunetomo
Manabu Takeuchi (Kaminari) as Gonzō

Others

Atsushi Nakamura as Oyama Tomomasa
Nao Takahashi as Yūki Tomomitsu
Shin Shimizu as Naganuma Munemasa
Motohiro Niina as Adachi Kagemori
Eriko Aube as Yū
Ayumu as Nakano Yoshinari
Naritada Nishimura as Ogasawara Nagatsune

The imperial court

Toshiyuki Nishida as Emperor Go-Shirakawa, the 77th emperor of Japan
Onoe Matsuya II as Emperor Go-Toba, who initiated the Jōkyū War
- Rihito Kikui as young Emperor Go-Toba
Toma Ikuta as Minamoto no Nakaakira
Kyōka Suzuki as Tango no Tsubone
Toshihiro Yashiba as Taira no Tomoyasu
Hajime Yamazaki as Maki Munechika
Subaru Kimura as Prince Mochihito
Tōru Shinagawa as Minamoto no Yorimasa
Chisa Aizawa as Emperor Antoku
- Mitsunojō Itō as toddler Emperor Antoku
Takeharu Morimoto as Nakahara no Tomochika
Naoki Tanaka as Kujō Kanezane
Kazunari Murakami as Tosanobō Shōshun
Tomokazu Seki as Tsuchimikado Michichika
Sylvia Grab as Fujiwara no Kaneko
Yūya Kido as Ichijō Takayoshi
Tomoya Hoshi as Fujiwara no Hideyasu
Myung-joo Inoue as Minamoto no Yorimochi
Iori Koshida as Mitora

Taira clan

Ken Matsudaira as Taira no Kiyomori
Kyōko Ōtani as Taira no Tokiko
Kotaro Koizumi as Taira no Munemori
Shogo Hama as Taira no Koremori
Kano Ichiki as "Kenshunmon-in" Shigeko
Kaishi Iwao as Taira no Tomomori
Yūto Shimada as Taira no Kiyomune

Northern Fujiwara

Min Tanaka as Fujiwara no Hidehira
Yūsuke Hirayama as Fujiwara no Kunihira
Hiroshi Yamamoto as Fujiwara no Yasuhira
Mayumi Amano as Toku
Jun'ichi Kawanami as Fujiwara no Yorihira
Hiroshi Kobayashi as Kawada Jirō

Others

Ichikawa Ennosuke IV as Mongaku
Tarō Suwa as Mon'yōbō Kakuen
Kazuyuki Aijima as Unkei
Kenichi Ogata as the chief priest of Ganjōju-in.
Koichi Yamadera as Jien
Gene L. Zheng as Chen Heqing, a.k.a. Chin Nakei
Shihō Harumi as a doctor
Shinobu Otake as a Miko
Sayaka Isoyama as Satsuki
Jun Matsumoto as Tokugawa Ieyasu

TV schedule

Episode	Title	Directed by	Original airdate	Rating
1	"Ōinaru Kozeriai" (大いなる小競り合い)	Teruyuki Yoshida	January 9, 2022 (2022-01-09)	17.3%
2	"Suke-dono no Hara" (佐殿の腹)	Teruyuki Yoshida	January 16, 2022 (2022-01-16)	14.7%
3	"Kyohei wa Shinchō ni" (挙兵は慎重に)	Sō Suenaga	January 23, 2022 (2022-01-23)	16.2%
4	"Ya no Yukue" (矢のゆくえ)	Sō Suenaga	January 30, 2022 (2022-01-30)	15.4%
5	"Ani tono Yakusoku" (兄との約束)	Teruyuki Yoshida	February 6, 2022 (2022-02-06)	13.4%
6	"Warui Shirase" (悪い知らせ)	Keita Hosaka	February 13, 2022 (2022-02-13)	13.7%
7	"Teki ka, Aruiwa" (敵か、あるいは)	Sō Suenaga	February 20, 2022 (2022-02-20)	14.4%
8	"Iza, Kamakura" (いざ、鎌倉)	Teruyuki Yoshida	February 27, 2022 (2022-02-27)	13.7%
9	"Kessen Zen'ya" (決戦前夜)	Keita Hosaka	March 6, 2022 (2022-03-06)	14.0%
10	"Konkyo naki Jishin" (根拠なき自信)	Daisuke Andō	March 13, 2022 (2022-03-13)	13.6%
11	"Yurusarezaru Uso" (許されざる嘘)	Teruyuki Yoshida	March 20, 2022 (2022-03-20)	13.5%
12	"Kame-no-mae Jiken" (亀の前事件)	Sō Suenaga	March 27, 2022 (2022-03-27)	13.1%
13	"Osananajimi no Kizuna" (幼なじみの絆)	Teruyuki Yoshida	April 3, 2022 (2022-04-03)	12.9%
14	"Miyako no Yoshinaka" (都の義仲)	Daisuke Andō	April 10, 2022 (2022-04-10)	12.1%
15	"Ashigatame no Gishiki" (足固めの儀式)	Keita Hosaka	April 17, 2022 (2022-04-17)	12.9%
16	"Densetsu no Makuake" (伝説の幕開け)	Sō Suenaga	April 24, 2022 (2022-04-24)	12.9%
17	"Jomei to Shukumei" (助命と宿命)	Teruyuki Yoshida	May 1, 2022 (2022-05-01)	12.5%
18	"Dan-no-ura de Matta Otoko" (壇ノ浦で舞った男)	Teruyuki Yoshida	May 8, 2022 (2022-05-08)	12.7%
19	"Hatasenu Gaisen" (果たせぬ凱旋)	Daisuke Andō	May 15, 2022 (2022-05-15)	13.2%
20	"Kaettekita Yoshitsune" (帰ってきた義経)	Keita Hosaka	May 22, 2022 (2022-05-22)	12.8%
21	"Hotoke no Manazashi" (仏の眼差し)	Sō Suenaga	May 29, 2022 (2022-05-29)	13.2%
22	"Yoshitoki no Ikiru Michi" (義時の生きる道)	Satoru Nakaizumi	June 5, 2022 (2022-06-05)	12.9%
23	"Kari to Emono" (狩りと獲物)	Teruyuki Yoshida	June 12, 2022 (2022-06-12)	13.3%
24	"Kawaranu Hito" (変わらぬ人)	Daisuke Andō	June 19, 2022 (2022-06-19)	12.0%
25	"Ten ga Nozonda Otoko" (天が望んだ男)	Teruyuki Yoshida	June 26, 2022 (2022-06-26)	12.2%
26	"Kanashimu Mae ni" (悲しむ前に)	Keita Hosaka	July 3, 2022 (2022-07-03)	12.9%
27	"Kamakura-dono to Jūsan-nin" (鎌倉殿と十三人)	Sō Suenaga	July 17, 2022 (2022-07-17)	11.7%
28	"Meitō no Aruji" (名刀の主)	Daisuke Andō	July 24, 2022 (2022-07-24)	12.9%
29	"Mamanaranu Tama" (ままならぬ玉)	Satoru Nakaizumi	July 31, 2022 (2022-07-31)	11.9%
30	"Zenjō no Kakuritsu" (全成の確率)	Teruyuki Yoshida	August 7, 2022 (2022-08-07)	11.4%
31	"Akirame no Warui Otoko" (諦めの悪い男)	Keita Hosaka	August 14, 2022 (2022-08-14)	12.1%
32	"Wazawai no Tane" (災いの種)	Teruyuki Yoshida	August 21, 2022 (2022-08-21)	11.8%
33	"Shuzen-ji" (修善寺)	Sō Suenaga	August 28, 2022 (2022-08-28)	10.2%
34	"Risō no Kekkon" (理想の結婚)	Satoru Nakaizumi	September 4, 2022 (2022-09-04)	11.9%
35	"Nigai Sakazuki" (苦い盃)	Keita Hosaka	September 11, 2022 (2022-09-11)	11.2%
36	"Bushi no Kagami" (武士の鑑)	Sō Suenaga	September 18, 2022 (2022-09-18)	12.4%
37	"Onberebunbinba" (オンベレブンビンバ)	Naoki Kobayashi	September 25, 2022 (2022-09-25)	12.6%
38	"Toki wo Tsugu Mono" (時を継ぐ者)	Teruyuki Yoshida	October 2, 2022 (2022-10-02)	11.7%
39	"Odayaka na Ichinichi" (穏やかな一日)	Keita Hosaka	October 16, 2022 (2022-10-16)	12.0%
40	"Wana to Wana" (罠と罠)	Satoru Nakaizumi	October 23, 2022 (2022-10-23)	11.3%
41	"Yoshimori, Omae ni Tsumi wa Nai" (義盛、お前に罪はない)	Teruyuki Yoshida	October 30, 2022 (2022-10-30)	11.3%
42	"Yume no Yukue" (夢のゆくえ)	Sō Suenaga	November 6, 2022 (2022-11-06)	11.3%
43	"Shikaku to Shikaku" (資格と死角)	Teruyuki Yoshida and Hitoshi Matsumoto	November 13, 2022 (2022-11-13)	11.5%
44	"Shinpan no Hi" (審判の日)	Keita Hosaka	November 20, 2022 (2022-11-20)	11.0%
45	"Hachimangū no Kaidan" (八幡宮の階段)	Daisuke Andō	November 27, 2022 (2022-11-27)	6.2%^[6]
46	"Shōgun ni Natta Onna" (将軍になった女)	Sō Suenaga	December 4, 2022 (2022-12-04)	11.3%
47	"Aru Chōteki, Aru Enzetsu" (ある朝敵、ある演説)	Teruyuki Yoshida and Takahiro Yaguchi	December 11, 2022 (2022-12-11)	11.9%
48	"Mukui no Toki" (報いの時)	Teruyuki Yoshida	December 18, 2022 (2022-12-18)	14.8%
Average rating 12.7% - Rating is based on Japanese Video Research (Kantō region).^[7]

Omnibus

Episode	Original airdate	Original airtime
1	December 29, 2022	13:05 - 14:15
2		14:15 - 15:20
3		15:25 - 16:31
4		16:31 - 17:40

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Recipient	Result	Ref.
2023	16th Tokyo Drama Awards	Best Drama Series	The 13 Lords of the Shogun	Nominated	^[8]
2023	16th Tokyo Drama Awards	Best Actor	Shun Oguri	Won	^[8]

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