Isobe Watches Toyotomi Kyodai With Band After Sendai Live
A bassist with no acting experience holding a taiga role confirms the pattern the drama has leaned on: casting beyond the usual acting pool, and letting the lead actor set the tone on set.
Reporting from 1 source: Cinema Today.
Hiroyuki Isobe of the rock band [Alexandros] plays Motochika Chosokabe in NHK's taiga drama Toyotomi Kyodai!, starring Taiga Nakano, and spoke after Episode 36 aired on the 20th. He said he visited Motochika's grave, called his band's Sendai live show night viewing of Episode 25 a source of happiness, and described Nakano sending him a written account of a day on set.
Episode 36, titled "Himewakako to Oniwakako," centers on Motochika Chosokabe, whose ambition is the unification of Shikoku, rebelling against Hideyoshi, played by Sosuke Ikematsu. Hideyoshi names Hidenaga, played by Taiga Nakano, supreme commander of the Shikoku campaign, and Hidenaga mounts a large operation against the natural fortress. Isobe's most memorable scene so far is Episode 25, where Motochika performs Noh and greets Nobunaga, played by Shun Oguri. He was nervous in a room of lead-class actors, and watched that broadcast in a dressing room in Sendai with his bandmates after their live.
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- Cinema Today [Alexandros]磯部寛之、ライブ直後に「豊臣兄弟！」メンバーと視聴 「最高に幸せ」