The Unfettered Shogun (1978)
The Unfettered Shogun (1978)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This TV Show Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Reiko Takashima
Kozoe
Hidetoshi Ueno
Toshimatsu
Megumi Matsushita
Chinatsu
Ken Matsudaira
Shinnosuke Tokuda / Yoshimune Tokugawa
Akihiko Osada
Senta
Shunsuke Kikuchi
Original Music Composer
Misaki Uchibori
Momo
Keiko Haruno
Actress
Megumi Morisaki
Osaki
Kyosnosuke Masago
Sekimae Asanosuke
Shinya Hashimoto
Tatsuyoshi
Hideo Nakano
Mineji
Saburo Kitajima
Hanakawado Tatsugorô (1978-2002)
Tadashi Yokouchi
Ôka Tadasuke (1978-1997)
Yoko Ishino
Okyo
Ryo Tamura
O'oka Tadasuke
Asahi Kurizuka
Yamada Asazaemon (Isshiki Jûrôta) (1978-1994)
Masumi Harukawa
Osai (1978-1987)
Misako Kinmura
Omachi (1978-1987)
Ryuko
Ryuko
Shoko Yoshizawa
Art Direction
Kenji Yamashita
Art Direction
Isamu Iguchi
Director of Photography
Muneyuki Tsuda
Director of Photography
Yusuke Mizumaki
Director of Photography
Yuji Tanaka
Director of Photography
Haruo Ichikura
Director
Ichiro Ishikawa
Director
Hiroshi Morimoto
Director
Yoshihiro Tomabechi
Assistant Director
Satoshi Shimoto
Assistant Director
Shôji Nagaoka
Assistant Director
Media.
Details.
Release DateJanuary 7, 1978
Original Name暴れん坊将軍
StatusEnded
Seasons12
Episodes834
Running Time45m
Genres
Wiki.
The Unfettered Shogun (暴れん坊将軍) (Abarenbō Shōgun) was a Japanese television program on the TV Asahi network. Set in the eighteenth century, it showed fictitious events in the life of Yoshimune, the eighth Tokugawa shōgun.
The program started in 1978 under the title Yoshimune Hyōbanki: Abarenbō Shōgun (Chronicle in Praise of Yoshimune: The Unfettered Shōgun) who went after rogue councilors and daimyō who were abusing their power. After a few seasons, they shortened the first two words and the show ran for two decades under the shorter title until the series ended in 2003; a two-hour special aired in 2004. The earliest scripts occasionally wove stories around historic events such as the establishment of firefighting companies of commoners in Edo, but eventually the series adopted a routine of strictly fiction.
Along with Zenigata Heiji and Mito Kōmon, it ranks among the longest-running series in the jidaigeki genre. Like many other jidaigeki, it falls in the category of kanzen-chōaku, loosely, "rewarding good and punishing evil".