Toshiie Shun Ōide as Old Toshiie Takehiro Hira as Saji Kazunari, cousin of three sisters Yoshiharu Takeda as Ikeda Tsuneoki Jundai Yamada as Sakuma Morimasa Kōji Seto as Mori Ranmaru Shōta Sometani as Mori Bōmaru Shōgo Sakamoto as Mori Rikimaru Akechi Family Masachika Ichimura as Akechi Mitsuhide, a general under Oda Nobunaga Mimura as Hosokawa Gracia, a daughter of Akechi Mitsuhide Yū Kamio as Saitō Toshimitsu Toyotomi Family Gorō Kishitani as Toyotomi Hideyoshi, vassal of Oda Nobunaga Shinobu Otake as One, legal wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi Tomoko Naraoka as Naka, mother of Toyotomi Hideyoshi Yukiya Kitamura as Toyotomi Hidetsugu, a nephew and retainer of Toyotomi Hideyoshi Yoshihiko Hakamada as Hashiba Hidenaga, Toyotomi Hidenaga Taiga as Toyotomi Hideyori Shiori Kutsuna as Senhime Sawa Suzuki as Kyōgoku Tatsuko Vassal of Toyotomi Family Masato Hagiwara as Ishida Mitsunari Toshio Shiba as Kuroda Kanbei Shinji Takeda as Ōno Harunaga Tokugawa Family Kin'ya Kitaōji as Tokugawa Ieyasu, father of Tokugawa Hidetada Osamu Mukai as Tokugawa Hidetada, third son of Tokugawa Ieyasu Kayo Asano as Lady Tsukiyama Shōgo Kimura as Tokugawa Nobuyasu, eldest son of Tokugawa Ieyasu Yasuko Tomita as Fuku Naoto Kinosaki as Takechiyo Tomoyuki Imagawa as Kunimatsu Kaito Kobayashi as Hoshina Kōmatsu Mone Kamishiraishi as Masa Vassal of Tokugawa Family Masao Kusakari as Honda Masanobu Shunsuke Kariya as Honda Tadakatsu Ken'ichi Sakuragi as Sakai Tadatsugu Others Motoya Izumi as Ashikaga Yoshiaki, the 15th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate Jin Nakayama as Asakura Yoshikage Kōji Ishizaka as Sen no Rikyū, famous tea masters Manabu Hamada as Sanada Yukimura Tatsumi Fujinami as Sanada Masayuki Takumi Saito as Kyōgoku Takatsugu Akira Hamada as Mōri Terumoto Koji Shimizu as Hōjō Ujimasa Nobuyoshi Hisamatsu as Takeda Katsuyori Production Gō was announced as the 50th taiga drama by the NHK on June 17, 2009, to be based on the novel of the same name by Kumiko Tabuchi, who is also the writer for the drama. Tabuchi, composer Ryō Yoshimata, and actress Tomoko Naraoka all previously worked on the 47th taiga drama Atsuhime in 2008. With the success of Atsuhime, Tabuchi was asked in the middle of its run if she can write a series about Gō and her sisters, to which she agreed to. Though she began to write the teleplays for Gō in 2008, she would decide to complete the novel first before continuing to write the scripts. The usual taiga drama production would first have one-third of the