Waseda University

In the 15th year of the Meiji era (1882), Ōkuma Shigenobu, expelled from the Council of State by the Satsuma-Chōshō clique, poured his personal fortune into establishing the Tokyo Professional School in a tea field in Waseda Village. With seven professors, including Takada Sanae and Tsubouchi Yūzō, and eighty-seven students, government interference extended even to finances; Ono Azusa, who tirelessly worked to secure funding, died from overwork.

Eitarō Ozawa

(Ōkuma Shigenob)

Shizue Natsukawa

(Wife Ayako)

Yūnosuke Itō

(Koganei Daisuke)

Ryutaro Otomo

(Suginoe Kōji)

Eijirō Tōno

(Guest Nomura)

Kinzō Shin

(Ono Azusa (1884))

Tatsuya Ishiguro

(Takada Sanae (1884))

Shin Tokudaiji

(Kurishima Tsuneki, assassin)

Hisako Yamane

(Marie)

Shūji Sano

(Namishima Gen'ichi)

Takashi Kanda

(Takami Gōhei)

Nobuo Kaneko

(Hotani Nitarō)

Yasushi Nagata

(Tsubouchi Yūzō)

Sugisaku Aoyama

(Guest Watanabe)

Tomo'o Nagai

(Student Mizuno)

Yoshibumi Tajima

(Detective)

Junji Masuda

(Nishikata Gensuke)

Koreya Senda

(Kageyama Haruo)

Kaneko Iwasaki

(Female Student)

Gen Funabashi

(Namishima Keikichi)

Masanori Ogura

(Younger Brother Susumu)

Yumiko Miyagino

(Kitade Miki)

Tetsunosuke Tsukigata

(Sozaki Sanzō)