is a 2004 Taiga drama historical fiction television series produced by Japanese broadcaster NHK. It was a popular drama about the Shinsengumi, a Japanese special police force from the Bakumatsu period.

Actors include Koji Yamamoto, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Joe Odagiri, and Shingo Katori of the pop idol group SMAP. It was written by Japanese director and playwright, Kōki Mitani.

Shinsengumi!

Staff

Original: Kōki Mitani

Music: Takayuki Hattori

Titling: Tansetsu Ogino

Narrator: Yasuo Kodera

Historical research: Manabu Ōishi, Tatsuya Yamamura

Architectural research: Sei Hirai

Clothing research: Kiyoko Koizumi

Production coordinator: Kōji Kikkawa

Casting: Kazuhiko Itō

Sword fight arranger : Kunishirō Hayashi

Cast

Shinsengumi

Shingo Katori as Kondō Isami

Kōji Yamamoto as Hijikata Toshizō

Tatsuya Fujiwara as Okita Sōji

Joe Odagiri as Saitō Hajime

Nakamura Kantarō II as Tōdō Heisuke

Tarō Yamamoto as Harada Sanosuke

Masato Sakai as Yamanami Keisuke

Tomomitsu Yamaguchi as Nagakura Shinpachi

Takashi Kobayashi as Inoue Genzaburō

Shoei as Shimada Kai

Jun Hashimoto as Yamazaki Susumu

Koji Ohkura as Kawai Kisaburo

Norito Yashima as Takeda Kanryuusai

Seichū-rōshi gumi

Kōichi Satō as Serizawa Kamo

Kazuyuki Aijima as Niimi Nishiki

Tadashi Sakata as Hirayama Gorō

Gōshū as Hirama Jūsuke

Itō-dōjō party

Shōsuke Tanihara as Itō Kashitarō

Masato Obara as Kanō Washio

Aizu Domain

Michitaka Tsutsui as Matsudaira Katamori

Kenichi Yajima as Hirosawa Tomijirō

Yasuyoshi Hara as Teshirogi Suguemon

Tosa Domain

Yōsuke Eguchi as Sakamoto Ryōma

Hiroki Miyake as Mochizuki Kameyata

Nozomu Masuzawa as Nakaoka Shintarō

Chōshū Domain

Ken Ishiguro as Kido Takayoshi

Hiroyuki Ikeuchi as Kusaka Genzui

Satsuma Domain

Takashi Ukaji as Saigō Takamori

Yamato Yasumura as Ōkubo Toshimichi

Takato Gohō as Kuroda Ryōsuke

Tokugawa shogunate

Tomohiko Imai as Tokugawa Yoshinobu – the last shogun

Tsuyoshi Ihara as Sasaki Tadasaburō

Hideki Noda as Katsu Kaishū

Isao Sasaki as Uchiyama Hikojirō

Tsuyoshi Kusanagi as Enomoto Takeaki

Tetsushi Tanaka as Matsumoto Ryōjun

Imperial House

Nakamura Fukusuke IX as Emperor Kōmei – the 121st emperor

Yūji Nakamura as Iwakura Tomomi

Others

Yasuko Sawaguchi as Okita Mitsu - Okita Sōji's eldest sister

Kōji Ishizaka as Sakuma Shōzan

Tetsurō Sagawa as Onogawa Hidegorō

Mainoumi Shūhei as Kumakawa Kuwajirō – a sumo wrestler

Daishi Nobuyuki as Kurogami – a sumo wrestler

Jay Kabira as Henry Heusken

Marty Kuehnert as Townsend Harris

Yūka as Okō

Asahi Kurizuka as Hijikata Tamejirō, Toshizō's older brother

Rei Kikukawa as Ikumatsu

References

External links

SHINSENGUMI 新選組 Shinsengumi Website

2004 Japanese television series debuts

2004 Japanese television series endings

Taiga drama

Television shows written by Kôki Mitani

Cultural depictions of Tokugawa Yoshinobu

Shinsengumi!