The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine

In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and Tokachi, and an anarchist group called the Guillotine Society, spark an unlikely connection.

Drama History

Mai Kiryu

(Tomoyo Hanakiku)

Hanae Kan

(Tamae Tokachigawa)

Masahiro Higashide

(Tetsu Nakahama)

Kanichiro Sato

(Daijiro Furuta)

Yôko Kamon

(Mitsu Tamatsubaki)

Maki Maehara

(Tsune Umenosato)

Ai Nishina

(Maki Wakanishiki)

Yuki Tashiro

(Matsu Hagurosakura)

Kanako Mochida

(Yoshi Kotenryu)

Miho Harita

(Ushi Yonaguni)

Maho Yamada

(Haru Kozakura)

Ayaka Onishi

(Katsu Katsutora)

Misa Wada

(Kiyo Hideriyama)

Jun Seno

(Sen Mogamigawa)

Kaho Harada

(2 generation Kozakura)

Gôichi Mine

(Sanji)

Kiyohiko Shibukawa

(Tamasaburo Iwaki)

Ryo Ikeda

(Kozo Kawai)

Tomokoi Kimura

(Maichi Naka)

Kaoru Iida

(Yoshio Ogawa)

Ryuju Kobayashi

(Yunoshin Tanaka)

Taiga Komizu

(Jiro Konishi)

Kuu Izima

(Gentaro Uchida)

Ryunosuke Azuma

(Eikichi Shigeno)

Toshimitsu Kokido

(Sakae Osugi)

Takashi Yamanaka

(Kyutaro Wada)

Arata Iura

(Genjiro Muraki)

Shima Onishi

(Daigoro Iioka)

Sankichi Kawamoto

(Sakichi)

Haruki Takano

(Kichiji)

Kyūsaku Shimada

(Hanbee Tanaka)

Kensaku Watanabe

(Mizushima)

Shohei Uno

(Kazuo Morimoto)

Takuji Suzuki

(Sakanauri no Otoya)

Tatsushi Ōmori

(Matsutaro Shoriki)

Atsushi Shinohara

(Sadao)

Shun Sugata

(Maruman, Police Chief)

Yohta Kawase

(Kantaro Sakata, the Sponsor)

Zenki Aramaki

(Keiji Kurachi)

Masatoshi Nagase

(Narrator)