▲ NHK Ōkawa drama "Rushing Blue Sky" starred Yoshizawa Ryo
The extended version (60 minutes) of the first episode of the NHK Ōkawa drama "Rushing Blue Sky" (8 p.m. on Sunday), starring actor Ryo Yoshizawa (27 years old), has been broadcast on the 14th, and according to the data released on the 15th, the average rating of the first episode is 20.0% (the data comes from the ratings company, only the Kanto region). Instantaneous ratings reached a new record of 22.8% at 8:57 p.m., with a personal rating of 12.5%.
The average viewership in the Kansai region is 18.9% (per household).
The rating exceeded the rating of the first episode of the previous big river drama "Kirin Is Coming" by 19.1%, which is a good start. This is also since the 13-year "Yae Sakura", after 8 years of Oikawa drama first episode ratings exceeded the 20% mark, its ratings even suppressed the Japanese TV program "To the End of the World ItteQ!", 14.2% of popular programs such as TV Asahi program "Out of the Crowd", the ratings ranked first in the same time period.
The first episode of the big river drama "Here Comes the Unicorn" has a rating of 19.1%, and the last episode has a rating of 18.4%, which is a very impressive number. The average rating during the 44 episodes of the show was 14.4%, which is the second time since 2016 that Sanada Maru (16.6%) has exceeded 14% in the ratings.
In recent years, the ratings of the first episode of the Ōkawa drama are as follows: 19.1% in 2020, "Kirin is Coming" in 2019; 15.5% in 2019; "Saigoden" in 2018; 16.9% in 2017; "Sanada Maru" in 2016; "Hana-burning" in 2015 was 16.7%; in 2014, "Officers and Soldiers of the Military Division" was 18.9%; in 2013, "Yae Sakura" was 21.4%; and in 2012, "Yae Sakura" was 21.4%; and in 2012, "Hana-chan" was 16.7% in 2015; "Officers and Soldiers and Guards of the Military Division" was 18.9% in 2014; "Yae Sakura" was 21.4% in 2013; and "Yae Sakura" in 2012 was "Yae Sakura" in 2012. Ping Qingsheng was 17.3%; in 2011, "Warring States of Jiang And Princesses" was 21.7%,2% in 2010; "Dragon Horse" was 23.2%; in 2009, "Heaven and Earth" was 24.7%; and in 2008, "Du Ji" was 20.3%.
▲ Poster of the big river drama "Rushing blue sky"
After the broadcast of "Shi Chong Qingtian", at 8:09 p.m. "#Shi Chong Qing Tian#" occupied the first place in the domestic hot search list of Twitter, and came to the first place in the world at 8:25 pm; the top 20 of Yahoo's hot search rankings were "Tokugawa Ieyasu", "Tokugawa Qi zhao", "Takashima Akira", "Hiroshi Tamaki", "Yujin Kobayashi (playing the protagonist in his childhood)" and so on, which caused a great response.
As the 60th Okawa drama, Mika Omori (48), who was the screenwriter of the 2015 hit morning drama "Asa is Coming", is also the first time that Omori Mika has tried to create a script for okawa drama. The main character of the drama is the industrialist Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931), known as the "father of Japanese capitalism", who attracted much attention because his head would be used on the 10,000 yuan banknotes issued every 20 years in 2024, Shibusawa Eiichi participated in the founding of about 500 companies, contributed to about 600 public undertakings, and devoted himself to the development of people-to-people diplomacy in his later years, and was twice awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The drama depicts that at the end of the shogunate's rule and the beginning of the Meiji period, Shibusawa Eiichi continued to bump and encounter setbacks in the great waves of the times, but he continued to open up his own future with the ambition to soar to the sky. This is Yoshizawa's first starring in the Ōkawa drama, and the title is taken from a section of a Han poem sung by the young Eiichi Shibusawa in the steep Inner Mountain Gorge while traveling in Shinshu to sell sapphire.
Narrator is fellow TV announcer Natsumi Moribon (40) and actor Shinya Kitaji (77), while music is run by Naoki Sato (50), who is best known for his films "Sunset in Forever Three Chochomes", Ōkawa drama "Ryoma" and morning drama "Carnation".
Titled "Eiichi, Awaken", the first episode tells the story of Eiichi Shibusawa (a juvenile character, Yukihito Kobayashi), who was born in a peasant family who raised silkworms and made blue jade for a living in the village of Bloodbath island in Musashi Prefecture (now FukayaShi City, Saitama Prefecture), and one day, Eiichi, who learns that the sinner has fled to the local military camp, plans to sneak into the military camp with his cousin Kisaku (the juvenile character, Ishizawa Yukito), who lives nearby. On the other side of Edo, in order to become a candidate for the next shogunate, Shichiro Maru (Kasamatsu Kisei), the son of the Mito domain lord Tokugawa Yoshiaki (Naoto Takenaka), enters the Hitotsubashi family of Mizunkei. (Pande/Translation)