1995 - 2002
8.0 (2 votes)
5 Seasons
Genres
Drama
Networks
Fuji TV
Gokenin Zankuro (御家人斬九郎)
Overview
Zankuro Matsudaira (Ken Watanabe) is a low-grade vassal of the Tokugawa Shogun, forced to moonlight as a bodyguard and executioner to make ends meet. He also has a drinking problem, an overeating mother, and a propensity to protect the oppressed, all of which eat into his finances. His confident mother Masajo (Kyoko Kishida) is the descendant of a famous family of shogunate retainers and a mistress of the pen and sword, who regards her son as a failure.
Seasons
Season 1 (1995)
No overview available.
8 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Side Job
1995-01-09Episode 2: The Two Bodyguards
1995-01-16Episode 3: Sister Comes Home
1995-01-23Episode 4: The Mystery of the Blue Skin
1995-01-30Episode 5: Voluntary Imprisonment
1995-02-06Episode 6: I am the Shogun
1995-02-13Episode 7: The Master of Waste
1995-02-20Episode 8: A Mysterious Killer
1995-02-27Season 2 (1997)
No overview available.
11 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Spring and Fire Prevention
1997-01-01Episode 2: Staying to Work
1997-01-08Episode 3: A Mother's Revenge
1997-01-15Episode 4: The Visitor from the North
1997-01-22Episode 5: Kumogakure
1997-01-29Episode 6: The Officer's Trap
1997-02-05Episode 7: Kichiji, the White Fish
1997-02-12Episode 8: Reward Under the Cherry Trees
1997-02-19Episode 9: The Refugee
1997-02-26Episode 10: The Flower of Nardus
1997-03-05Episode 11: Umbrella
1997-03-12Season 3 (1997)
No overview available.
11 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Two Men
1997-11-05Episode 2: Tiger Hunter
1997-11-12Episode 3: Sister
1997-11-19Episode 4: 36 Bodies
1997-11-26Episode 5: Horse Legs
1997-12-03Episode 6: The Red Gold
1997-12-10Episode 7: If Dogs Could Walk
1997-12-17Episode 8: Voluntary Seppuku
1997-12-24Episode 9: A Lovely Witness
1997-12-31Episode 10: The Woman Who Waits in Vain
1998-01-07Episode 11: Bushi Fukagawa
1998-01-14Season 4 (1999)
No overview available.
10 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Mother
1999-03-17Episode 2: The Man Who Went Away
1999-03-24Episode 3: The Otone Moon
1999-03-31Episode 4: Love Letter
1999-04-07Episode 5: Trap Within a Trap
1999-04-14Episode 6: Prison Break
1999-04-21Episode 7: Samurai Training
1999-04-28Episode 8: Woman in Sight
1999-05-05Episode 9: Persecuted Outcast
1999-05-12Episode 10: Being a Man
1999-05-19Season 5 (2001)
No overview available.
10 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Annoying loyalist
2001-12-24Episode 2: Demon of Hakone
2001-12-31Episode 3: The last ninja
2002-01-07Episode 4: Bandit apprentice
2002-01-14Episode 5: Haunted house
2002-01-21Episode 6: Sacrificial price Goryo
2002-01-28Episode 7: Mother's dream
2002-02-04Episode 8: Rancho Masajyo
2002-02-11Episode 9: Woman of Fuyukicho
2002-02-18Episode 10: The last deadly battle
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