Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
千年の恋 ひかる源氏物語
Watch love of a thousand years - story of genji on Soap2day. Set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story begins from the death of her husband, a Japanese noble, then moves on to her recruitment to train the Prince's young 'wives in waiting'. It is dotted throughout and actually composed mainly of one of the fictional stories she wrote, the tale of Genji. Genji is a rich playboy who falls in love and has a son to his stepmother. He falls in love often and has many wives whom are all completely subservient to him.
- Genre: Drama, History
- Country: Japan
- Director: Tonkô Horikawa
- Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yuki Amami, Toru Kazama, Morio Kazama, Kyôko Kishida, Naoto Takenaka, Seiko Matsuda, Takako Tokiwa, Ken Watanabe, Reiko Takashima, Rino Katase, Mitsuko Mori, Yoko Minamino, Fumie Hosokawa, Shinobu Nakayama, Keiko Takeshita, Tsurutaro Kataoka, Shigeru Kōyama, Takeshi Katō, Aki Maeda, Takami Mizuhashi,
