
Profile
- TV Movie: Wachigaiya Itosato
- Romaji: Wachigaiya Itosato
- Japanese: 輪違屋糸里 ~女たちの新撰組~
- Director: Makoto Kiyohiro
- Writer: Jiro Asada (novel), Yo Takeyama
- Network: TBS
- Episodes: 2
- Release Date: September 9 – September 10, 2007
- Runtime: 21:00~22:48
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Wachigaiya Itosato (Aya Ueto) is a giesha in the fabled district of Shimabara, Kyoto. She falls in love with Hijikata Toshizo (Hideaki Ito), who also seems to love Wachigaiya Itosato . One day, Serizawa Kamo (Shido Nakamura) asks Hijikata to give up Wachigaiya. Hijikata then decides to use Wachigaiya for his plan to assassinate Serizawa.
Notes
- Based on Jiro Asada’s novel “Wachigaiya Itosato” which was first published in the Japanese monthly “Oru yomimono” (August 2002 – February 2004).
Cast
- Aya Ueto – Itosato Wachigaiya
- Hideaki Ito – Toshizo Hijikata
- Shido Nakamura – Kamo Serizawa
- Koji Matoba – Isami Kondo
- Ryuhei Maruyama – Soji Okita
- Tomoko Nakajima – Oume
- Taro Yamamoto – Goro Hirayama
- Yoichi Nukumizu – Jusuke Hirama
- Mitsunori Isaki – Heisuke Todo
- Aki Nishihara – Kichie Kikyoya
- Jundai Yamada – Nishiki Shinmi
- Akane Oda – Otowa-kottai
- Yosuke Tagawa – Tahei Hishiya
- Yoshihiko Aoyama – Kyoemon Horaiya
- Kengo Komiya – Gennojo Yagi
- Shinobu Tsuruta – Mohei Kikyoya
- Kimiko Ikegami – Omasa (Yagi family)
- Shinsuke Aoki – Shinpachi Nagakura
- Makiya Yamaguchi – Hajime Saito
- Kazutoyo Yoshimi – Genzaburo Inoue
- Masashi Sekito – Sanosuke Harada
- Kenichiro Kikuchi – Keisuke Sannan
- Hideaki Kasai – Kenji Noguchi
- Makoto Kakeda – the eye doctor
- Kumi Hayase – Oshima (Tajimaya)
- Miyoko Asada – Okatsu (Maekawa family)
- Yuko Kotegawa – Yoshino (Mistress Wachigaiya)
- Takashi Sasano – Gisuke
- Kinnosuke Hanayagi – Katamori Matsudaira
- Akio Kaneda – Heihachi Wachigaiya
- Asami Fukuchi