Scripted series · NHK
Brothers in Arms
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Taiga Nakano
Toyotomi Hidenaga / Koichiro
30 eps
Sosuke Ikematsu
Toyotomi Hideyoshi / Tokichiro
30 eps
Sei Shiraishi
Nao
30 eps
Minami Hamabe
Nene
30 eps
Shun Oguri
Oda Nobunaga
30 eps
Jun Kaname
Akechi Mitsuhide
30 eps
Maki Sakai
Naka
30 eps
Emma Miyazawa
Tomo
30 eps
Anna Kurasawa
Asahi
30 eps
Masaki Suda
Takenaka Hanbē
30 eps
Kouhei Matsushita
Tokugawa Ieyasu
30 eps
Tatsuomi Hamada
Saitō Tatsuoki
30 eps
Makiya Yamaguchi
Shibata Katsuie
30 eps
Tetsuhiro Ikeda
Niwa Nagahide
30 eps
Ayumu Nakajima
Azai Nagamasa
30 eps
Shunsuke Daitoh
Maeda Toshiie
30 eps
Yuuka Sugai
Matsu
30 eps
Aoi Miyazaki
Oichi
30 eps
Riho Yoshioka
Kei
30 eps
Nagi Inoue
Chacha
30 eps
Sakura Ando
Narration
30 eps
Hiroyuki Isobe
Chōsokabe Motochika
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Brothers in Arms actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Brothers in Arms reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Emotional Weight.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Set in the Sengoku period, this story follows the Toyotomi brothers—Hidenaga and Hideyoshi—and their unbreakable bond as they rise to unify Japan.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Hiroyuki YatsuWriter
Music
- Hideakira KimuraOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
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