Burning Flower

Burning Flower is a 2015 Japanese historical drama television series, the 54th NHK taiga drama. The series stars Mao Inoue as Sugi Fumi, a sister of Meiji Restoration scholar Yoshida Shōin. It premiered on January 4, 2015, and ended on December 13, 2015.

Plot

The series depicts the Meiji Restoration, occurring during the last years of the Bakufu Shogunate and the early years of the Meiji Era, through the point of view of Sugi Fumi, the younger sister of Yoshida Shōin.

Mao Inoue as Sugi Fumi
*Momoka Yamada as young Fumi
Yusuke Iseya as Yoshida Shōin, Shishi of Bakumatsu era, Fumi's second eldest brother
*Rihito Itagaki as young Shōin
Kyōzō Nagatsuka as Sugi Yurinosuke, Fumi's father
Fumi Dan as Sugi Taki, Fumi's mother
Eiji Okuda as Tamaki Bun'noshin, Fumi's uncle
Taizo Harada as Sugi Umetarō, Fumi's eldest brother
Yūka as Odamura Hisa, Fumi's second eldest sister, Odamura's first wife
*Kanon as young Hisa
Yūki Morinaga as Sugi Toshisaburō, Fumi's younger brother

Okugoten is the harem of Chōshū Domain.

Haruka Igawa as Takasu Hisako
Umika Kawashima as Takasu Ito
Hirotarō Honda as Tominaga Yūrin
Kento Miyahara as a sumo wrestler
Anne Suzuki as Tatsuji
Mitsuru Hirata as Dr. Yamane Bunki
Yuina Kuroshima as Takasugi Masa, Shinsaku's wife
George Yamamoto as Shiraishi Shōichirō
Akiko Hinagata as Ikumatsu, Takayoshi's wife
Tōru Emori as Akuzawa Gonzō, official of Gunma prefecture
Yoshiko Mita as Akuzawa Sei
Shunsuke Daito as Hoshino Chōtarō
Yoshihiko Hosoda as Arai Ryōichirō
Kazuyuki Aijima as Suzuki Eitarō
Hiroyuki Onoue as Kudō Chōjirō
Masako Miyaji as Tome
Yoshizumi Ishihara as Funatsu Denjibei, one of "Three agricultural professionals of Meiji"
Takamasa Suga as Murakami Tsunehisa
Kurara Chibana as Tsuda Umeko
Kisuke Iida as Saigō Jūdō
Eri Fuse as Mrs. Sagano
Atsuko Sakurai as Mrs. Iketani
Fumina Hara as Mrs. Sakata
Karen Miyazaki as Irie Sumi
Fujiko Kojima as Yoshida Fusa
Anna Yamada as Hisa's friend