Gokenin Zankuro

• TV Show
• 1995-01-09
• JA
• Ended
• 0h 0m
• JP
• Drama

• 8.0
• 2

Production

Fuji Television Network, Kyodo Eiga Company Ltd.

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.