Jan 01, 1987
240 min
Full-HD

Taikoki (1987)

Rising from the lowliest of country samurai to the heights of power as Taiko, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is one of the pivotal figures of the Sengoku period.

Category

Drama History

Country

Japan

Companies

TBS

Kyôhei Shibata

Keiko Matsuzaka

Hiroki Matsukata

Yūko Natori

Hiroyuki Nagato

Narumi Yasuda

Shigeru Kōyama

Sayoko Ninomiya

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