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Drama

Gokenin Zankuro

8.0(3)

First Aired:January 9, 1995

Seasons:5 seasons

Episodes:50

Status:Ended

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 & Episodes

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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