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Oshin

Real · Emotional · Epic

Oshin

Series19831 season15m episodesDrama, Family, War & Politics★ 8.2

Directed by Eguchi Hiroyuki & Kobayashi Heihachiro & Takemoto Minoru & Yoshio Mochizuki & Ichiryu Kunihisa & Yoshimura Fumitaka & Ebata Jiro & Oki Kazufumi

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Oshin is a Japanese serialized morning television drama, which aired on broadcaster NHK from April 4, 1983 to March 31, 1984. The series follows the life of Shin Tanokura during the Meiji period up to the early 1980s. Shin was called "Oshin", which is an archaic Japanese cognomen.

Cast & crew

Eguchi Hiroyuki

Kobayashi Heihachiro

Takemoto Minoru

Yoshio Mochizuki

Ichiryu Kunihisa

Yoshimura Fumitaka

Yoshimura Fumitaka

Ayako Kobayashi

Ayako Kobayashi

Oshin (6 to 10 years old)

Yuko Tanaka

Oshin (16 to 46 years old)

Nobuko Otowa

Oshin (50 to 84 years old)

Shirô Namiki

Pinko Izumi

Shirō Itō

Eri Watanabe

Hiromi Senno

Nobuko Sendo

Soichiro Kitamura

Soichiro Kitamura

Hideo Sato

Masataka Naruse

Masataka Naruse

Masao Imafuku

Imamura Genemon

Yoji Matsuda

Norimasa Fuke

Etsushi Takahashi

Etsushi Takahashi

Shinji Yamashita

Shinji Yamashita

Misako Tanaka

Yōko Asaji

Seasons

297 episodes

Season 1

Season 11983 · 297 episodes

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Film DNA of this series

Dark

Tense

Funny

Romantic

Mind-bending

Epic

Emotional

Action

Wonder

Real

Where to watch

No streaming listing for US in the archive yet. In other countries it streams on:

dAnime Amazon Channel · 1 country

NHK On Demand Amazon Channel · 1 country

wavve · 1 country

TVING · 1 country

Streaming data by JustWatch

Screenplay: Sugako Hashida
Producer: Yukiko Kobayashi
Status: Ended
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Themes: based on true story, coming of age, wartime, historical, entrepreneur, post war japan, starvation, master servant relationship

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