Gokenin Zankuro

Original title: 御家人斬九郎

• 1995 –2002
• •
• Ended

• Drama

★ 8.0 TMDB Rating · 3 votes

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

5

Episodes

50

Episode length

~45m

First aired

Jan 9, 1995

Networks

Fuji TV

Original language

Japanese

Origin

Japan