Gokenin Zankuro

御家人斬九郎

Release date : 1995-01-09

Production country :

Japan

Production company :

Fuji Television Network,

Kyodo Eiga

Network :

Fuji TV

Status : Ended

Total Season : 5

Total episode : 50

Popularity : 2.2667

8 Total Vote : 3

Drama

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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.