"Tōge no Gunzō", the third NHK Taiga drama on the subject, starred Ken Ogata, and renowned director Juzo Itami appeared as Kira.In 2001 Fuji TV made a four-hour special of the story starring Takuya Kimura as Horibe Yasubei (one of the Akō "rōnin") and Kōichi Satō as Ōishi Kuranosuke, called "Chūshingura 1/47" .