Sanada Maru (Taiga drama)

Sanada Maru
Written by	Kōki Mitani
Directed by	Takafumi Kimura and others
Starring	Masato Sakai Yo Oizumi Masami Nagasawa Yoshino Kimura Koji Yamamoto Hirofumi Arai Haru Kuroki Mayu Matsuoka Yō Yoshida Takeo Nakahara Takashi Fujii Kataoka Ainosuke VI Shinya Niiro Taishi Nakagawa Kenichi Okamoto Susumu Terajima Masahiko Nishimura Show Aikawa Kenichi Endō Masanobu Takashima Yūko Takeuchi Atsuko Takahata Hiroshi Fujioka Mitsuko Kusabue Kyōka Suzuki Masaomi Kondō Fumiyo Kohinata Seiyō Uchino Masao Kusakari
Narrated by	Yumiko Udō
Theme music composer	Tatsuya Shimono
Opening theme	NHK Symphony Orchestra Fumiaki Miura
Composer(s)	Takayuki Hattori
Country of origin	Japan
Original language(s)	Japanese
No. of episodes	50
Production
Executive producer(s)	Yotaro Yashiki Kunio Yoshikawa
Running time	45 minutes
Release
Original network	NHK
Original release	January 10 – December 18, 2016

Sanada Maru (真田丸^?) is a Japanese television series starring Masato Sakai. It is the 55th NHK taiga drama. It is named after the Sanada Maru, a fortification defended by Sanada Nobushige during the Siege of Osaka in 1615.

The first episode aired on 10 January 2016.

The drama focuses on the history of the Sanada clan during the Sengoku era in Japan, and in particular on Sanada Nobushige, who would go on to become one of the legendary commanders of the period.

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