Gokenin Zankuro (series)
御家人斬九郎- User score: 8
- Production country: Japan
- Production companies: Fuji Television Network, Kyodo Eiga Company Ltd.
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 1/9/1995
- Release date of last episode: 5/19/1999
- Series status: Ended
- Seasons count: 5 ( List of episodes )
- Episodes count: 40
- Run time: 45 min.
Series description
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.
