Fūrin Kazan (Taiga drama)

Fūrin Kazan
Written by	Sumio Ōmori
Directed by	Kazuhiko Shimizu
Starring	Masaaki Uchino Ichikawa Kamejirō II Gackt Chizuru Ikewaki Yuki Shibamoto Akio Kaneda Seiichi Tanabe Kazuya Takahashi Kai Shishido Shōsuke Tanihara Ryuta Sato Shihori Kanjiya Asami Mizukawa Misa Shimizu Naomi Nishida Makoto Matsui Miyoko Asada Tokuma Nishioka Kuranosuke Sasaki Fumiyo Kohinata Toshiyuki Nagashima Masatō Ibu Ichikawa Sadanji IV Takeshi Katō Raita Ryū Jun Fubuki Shiho Fujimura Ken Ogata Sonny Chiba Tatsuya Nakadai
Theme music composer	Akira Senju
Opening theme	Ken Takaseki and NHK Symphony Orchestra
Composer(s)	Akira Senju
Country of origin	Japan
Original language(s)	Japanese
No. of episodes	50
Production
Executive producer(s)	Hisaaki Wakaizumi
Running time	approx. 43 min.
Release
Original network	NHK
Picture format	NTSC 14:9 (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Original release	January 7 – December 16, 2007

Fūrin Kazan (風林火山^?) was the 46th NHK Taiga drama beginning on January 7, 2007. It was aired throughout 2007.

The story, to a large extent, was an adaptation of Yasushi Inoue's 1959 historical novel of the same title (published in English under the title The Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan). The four characters of the title, from left to right are wind, woods, fire, and mountain. The title is a reference to the war banner used by Takeda Shingen, which in turn was taken from Sun Tzu's The Art of War. It means "Swift as the Wind, Silent as a Forest, Fierce as Fire and Immovable as a Mountain."

Like many of the previous Taiga dramas, Fūrin Kazan deals with the Sengoku period. Based on Yasushi Inoue's novel by the same title, it depicts the life of Yamamoto Kansuke who is known as one of Takeda Shingen's renowned strategists.

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