Historical Drama & Movie Timeline

Dramas and movies are organized by country and then time period.  Titles colored gold have been reviewed on our blog, those in teal have not yet.


KOREA
Goguryeo Era  (37BC - 668AD)
Jumong
circa 60BC-19BC, 81 episodes, 2006-2007
King Jumong/Dongmyeong/Chumo, founder of Goguryeo

The Kingdom of the Winds
Begins circa 18AD, 36 episodes, 2008-2009
King Muhyul/Daemusin, grandson of Jumong

Ja Myung Go
circa 20-37AD, 39 episodes, 2009
Prince Hodong, son of Muhyul

Yeon Gae So Mun
circa 603-666AD, 100 episodes, 2006-2007
The life of General Yeon Gaesomun

The Blade and the Petal
circa 630-660AD, 20 episodes, 2013
Moo Young, daughter of King Youngnyu of Goguryeo and Yeon Choong, son of Yeon Gaesomun


Balhae Kingdom  (698AD - 926AD)
Dae Jo Yeong
circa 640s - 710sAD, 134 episodes, 2006-2007
King Go, founder and first king of Balhae



JAPAN
Heian Period  (794-1185) 
Taira no Kiyomori
1118-1181, 50 episodes, 2012
Taira no Kiyomori, a general who established the first samurai dominated government in Japan.

Yoshitsune
1159-1189AD, 49 episodes, 2005
The life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune, younger brother of the founder of the Kamakura Shogunate


Kamakura Shogunate  (1185-1333)
Hojo Tokimune
circa 1251-1284, 49 episodes, 2001
Hojo Tokimune and the attempted Mongol Invasions of Japan


Sengoku/Warring States Period  (1467-1603)
Komyo ga Tsuji
1560-1605, 49 episodes + 2 specials, 2006
How Chiyo helped her husband, Yamauchi Kazutoyo, rise from samurai to daimyo during the late Sengoku to early Edo period.

Fuurin Kazan / Samurai Banners
1535-1561, 50 episodes, 2007
Yamamoto Kansuke, one of the Twenty Four Generals of Takeda Shingen, in the days before and during the Tokugawa rise.


Azuchi-Momoyama  (1568-1603)
Toshiie to Matsu
1550 - 1610s, 49 episodes, 2002
Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu - one man's fate intertwined with the three leaders.

Sanada Maru
1567-1615, 50 episodes, 2016
Sanada Nobushige, noted samurai general during the Siege of Osaka.

MUSASHI
1580s - 1610s, 49 episodes, 2003
The life of famed Japanese swordmaster Miyamoto Musashi

Tenchijin
1564-1620, 47 episodes, 2009
Naoe Kanetsugu, fiercely loyal samurai of the Uesugi family in 1500-1600s Japan.


Edo (Tokugawa) Period  (1603-1868) 
Aoi Tokugawa Sandai
circa 1598-1640s?, 49 episodes, 2000
First three Tokugawa Shoguns: Ieyasu, Hidetada, and Iemitsu

Onna joshu Naotora
N/A, N/A, 2017
Focuses on the Ii clan during the early Tokugawa period?

Gunshi Kanbei
1550s- 1604, 50 episodes, 2014
The story of Kuroda Kanbei, a chief strategist of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

Gou: Hime-tachi no Sengoku
1573-1626, 46 episodes, 2011
Gou, wife of Tokugawa Hidetada, and other women of the Sengoku period.

Shinsengumi!
1860s, 50 episodes, 2004
The tale of the Shinsengumi- the special police force of the Tokugawa Shogunate

Atsuhime
1835-1883, 50 episodes, 2008
Atsuhime, wife of Tokugawa Iesada, strong guide of the Tokugawa clan through the last days of the Edo periond and into the Meji Restoration.

Ryomaden
1836-1867, 48 episodes, 2010
Sakamoto Ryoma, a leader of the Meiji Restoration and sometimes called the 'father of the Imperial Japanese Navy'.

Hana Moyu
1843-1870s?, 50 episodes, 2015
The lives of Sugi Fumi and her brother Yoshida Shoin- a prominent Meiji intellectual and teacher.


Meji Era  (1868-1912)
Yae no Sakura
1850s-1920s, 50 episodes, 2013
Yamamoto Yaeko/Niijima Yae, nicknamed the 'Bakumatsu Joan of Arc'.