What If Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa Was to Become the Prime Minister (2024)
In the year 2020, when Covid-19 is rapidly spreading around the world, chaos ensues and people's daily lives are completely upended. A virus outbreak suddenly occurs at the prime minister's office in Japan. This leads to the prime minister's sudden death. The Japanese government then puts in place an unprecedented plan, which is to bring back the greatest leaders from Japan's past through AI holograms and form a super cabinet with them. These famous individuals include Ieyasu Tokugawa, Ryoma Sakamoto, Nobunaga Oda, and Hideyoshi Toyotomi. People are stunned and at the same time go crazy over the endless execution of policies by this new legendary cabinet. Risa Nishimura wants to become an announcer and currently works as a TV reporter for a broadcasting station. She approaches a government spokesperson, Ryoma Sakamoto, for an exclusive scoop. Due to an unexpected case, she realizes that something is going on behind this cabinet.
Director:
Hideki Takeuchi
Writer:
Yuichi Tokunaga
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Minami Hamabe as Risa Nishimura |
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Eiji Akaso as Ryoma Sakamoto |
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GACKT as Nobunaga Oda |
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Masahiro Takashima as Yoshimune Tokugawa |
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Noriko Eguchi as Masako Hojo |
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Tetsuhiro Ikeda as Tsunayoshi Tokugawa |
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Shinya Kote as Yoshimitsu Ashikaga |
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Mijika Nagai as Shotoku Prince |
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Arisa Mizuki as Shikibu Murasaki |
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Naoto Takenaka as Hideyoshi Toyotomi |
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Mansai Nomura as Ieyasu Tokugawa |
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Takuma Otoo as Mitsunari Ishida |
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Koji Yamamoto as Toshizo Hijikata |
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Zen Kajihara as Keiichi Morimoto |
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Suguru Adachi as Takuya Yoshida |
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Kazutoyo Koyabu as Toru Shimakawa |
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Yoshi Sakō as Manabu Mikoshiba |
| Directing | Hideki Takeuchi | Director |
| Production | Yoshihiro Kubota | Producer |
| Writing | Yuichi Tokunaga | Screenplay |
| Production | Minami Ichikawa | Production Director |
| Production | Hisashi Usui | Executive Producer |
| Production | Daisuke Katahira | Line Producer |
| Production | Maki Hiwara | Co-Executive Producer |
| Production | Yurika Koike | Producer |
| Editing | Hiroshi Matsuo | Editor |
| Visual Effects | 長崎悠 | VFX Supervisor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Isao Tsuge | Costume Design |
| Production | Nozomu Aida | Production Supervisor |
| Sound | Yui Arima | Music Producer |
| Production | Tsuyoshi Sugino | Casting |
| Lighting | Shunri Rinoie | Gaffer |
| Art | Yôji Abeki | Production Design |
| Art | 竹原丈二 | Decorator |
| Camera | Sohei Tanikawa | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Achilles Damigos | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Oh!Be | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Akihito Manabe | Novel |