EndedFuji TV1995-01-09

Gokenin Zankuro

Name: Gokenin Zankuro
Genre: Drama
Released: 1995-01-09
Rating: 8

御家人斬九郎

Drama~45 min

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Episodes

Networks

Fuji TV

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First aired

1995-01-09

Last aired

2002-02-25

Language

Rating

8.0 / 10

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Synopsis and details

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.