Gokenin Zankuro
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
E1Side Job
Jan 9, 1995
E2The Two Bodyguards
Jan 16, 1995
E3Sister Comes Home
Jan 23, 1995
E4The Mystery of the Blue Skin
Jan 30, 1995
E5Voluntary Imprisonment
Feb 6, 1995
E6I am the Shogun
Feb 13, 1995
E7The Master of Waste
Feb 20, 1995
E8A Mysterious Killer
Feb 27, 1995
E1Spring and Fire Prevention
Jan 1, 1997
E2Staying to Work
Jan 8, 1997
E3A Mother's Revenge
Jan 15, 1997
E4The Visitor from the North
Jan 22, 1997
E5Kumogakure
Jan 29, 1997
E6The Officer's Trap
Feb 5, 1997
E7Kichiji, the White Fish
Feb 12, 1997
E8Reward Under the Cherry Trees
Feb 19, 1997
E9The Refugee
Feb 26, 1997
E10The Flower of Nardus
Mar 5, 1997
E11Umbrella
Mar 12, 1997
E1Two Men
Nov 5, 1997
E2Tiger Hunter
Nov 12, 1997
E3Sister
Nov 19, 1997
E436 Bodies
Nov 26, 1997
E5Horse Legs
Dec 3, 1997
E6The Red Gold
Dec 10, 1997
E7If Dogs Could Walk
Dec 17, 1997
E8Voluntary Seppuku
Dec 24, 1997
E9A Lovely Witness
Dec 31, 1997
E10The Woman Who Waits in Vain
Jan 7, 1998
E11Bushi Fukagawa
Jan 14, 1998
E1Mother
Mar 17, 1999
E2The Man Who Went Away
Mar 24, 1999
E3The Otone Moon
Mar 31, 1999
E4Love Letter
Apr 7, 1999
E5Trap Within a Trap
Apr 14, 1999
E6Prison Break
Apr 21, 1999
E7Samurai Training
Apr 28, 1999
E8Woman in Sight
May 5, 1999
E9Persecuted Outcast
May 12, 1999
E10Being a Man
May 19, 1999
E1Annoying loyalist
Dec 24, 2001
E2Demon of Hakone
Dec 31, 2001
E3The last ninja
Jan 7, 2002
E4Bandit apprentice
Jan 14, 2002
E5Haunted house
Jan 21, 2002
E6Sacrificial price Goryo
Jan 28, 2002
E7Mother's dream
Feb 4, 2002
E8Rancho Masajyo
Feb 11, 2002
E9Woman of Fuyukicho
Feb 18, 2002
E10The last deadly battle
Feb 25, 2002
Storyline
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.
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