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Original Language:JA
First Air Date:9 Jan 1995
Last Air Date:19 May 1999
Number of seasons:5
Number of episodes:40
Episode runtime:45 min
Status:Ended
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Gokenin Zankuro

TV Series • 1995 • N/A • 5 Seasons • 40 Episodes

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.