The first episode of the NHK Taiga drama "Toyotomi Brothers!" (General TV, Sundays at 8:00 PM and other times), starring actor Nakano Taiga, titled "Two Monkeys," will be broadcast on January 4, 2026, with an extended 15 minutes. The story centers on Anna Kurasawa Anna.
Asahi is a "bright, cheerful, and carefree younger sister."
The younger sister of the Toyotomi brothers. She has a cheerful personality and is always positive and smiling, even though she lives in poverty as a farmer. Thanks to her older brothers' success, she and her husband lived a wealthy and happy life, but one day, she was suddenly divorced by Hideyoshi and married to Tokugawa Ieyasu.
In the first episode, "Two Monkeys," Koichiro (Nakano), born into a poor farming family in Nakamura, Owari, spends his days contentedly cultivating the fields and living with the soil. One day, a group of bandits attacks the village, and his childhood friend, Nao (Shiraishi Sei), is about to be kidnapped. His brother, Tokichiro (Ikematsu Sosuke), returns to the village after an eight-year absence and saves him from peril.
The story goes that Tokichiro, who dreams of becoming a great success in the service of the young Sengoku warlord Oda Nobunaga (Shun Oguri Shun), asks Koichiro to become his retainer.
