Abarenbo Shogun
★ 8 · 1978 · 45m · Family · Drama · Action & Adventure
Set in the 18th century, the show follows the Shogun Yoshimune, who likes to disguise himself as a low-ranking samurai and go into his capital of Edo to see the life of the common man, as well as to seek out and punish evildoers who would hurt his citizens. He is aided by Magistrate Oo'oka and a vivacious fireman, Tatsugoro, as well as a rotating cast of other recurring characters. Along with Zenigata Heiji and Mito Kōmon, it ranks among the longest-running series in the jidaigeki genre. Like so many other jidaigeki, it falls in the category of kanzen-chōaku, loosely, "rewarding good and punishing evil."
Episodes
▶1. The Star of Edo45m · Roughhousing daimyo Tokugawa Yoshimune of Kishu reluctantly becomes the Shogun so that he may bring prosperity to everyone in the country. On his procession to Edo Palace, he runs into his old friend Tatsugoro, and a little girl begging for a pardon for her father on death row. Yoshimune decides to sneak out of Edo Palace and do a little detective work.▶2. The Remarkable Charlatan45m · Ogyu Shosen is called a quack doctor, but Yoshimune thinks he should be made surgeon-general.▶3. The First Fireman Banner45m · Hatamoto firemen are causing a nuisance and thieving in town, so fiery Tatsugoro and his gang of construction workers aim to take them down.▶4. Mother From Long Past45m · A hatamoto's spoiled brat daughter is in the habit of thieving and blaming it on commoners. Meanwhile, Yoshimune becomes preternaturally obsessed with a den-den taiko (a type of child's toy).▶5. Spring in the O'oku45m · ▶6. The Splendid Potato Samurai45m · ▶7. The Man of River Styx45m · ▶8. The Befouled Truncheon45m · ▶9. The Chivalrous Thief45m · ▶10. The Blossoming Meyasubako45m · ▶11. The Finest Kiyari Song45m · ▶12. The Amazing Kishu Woman45m · Yoshimune's old friend from Kishu, a female lumberjack, comes to Edo to engage in lumber trade, but gets in trouble.▶13. The Perilous Souvenir Gift45m · Yoshimune's old friends from Kishu, Sakichi and Onatsu of the lumber store, are leaving town, so Yoshimune comes to bring them a present. He ends up getting in the way of a drug bust and is mistaken for a drug dealer.▶14. The Golden Crow Charms45m · Fireman Genzo wins the lottery, but is then reported to the police for having a forged ticket.▶15. The Quack Who Calls Forth Spring45m · Even though he has been made surgeon-general, nobody trusts Ogawa Shosen or Yoshimune's city hospital. Yoshimune decides to get himself admitted as Shin-san to investigate from within.▶16. Showdown at Beautiful Yoshiwara45m · ▶17. Love and the Guardian Deity45m · Satsuma domain bully a store that is in their debt by trying to steal the storekeeper's girlfriend, and by framing them for theft. Only a man of stone can save Tamba-ya from destruction!▶18. The Beat of a Taiko Drum in Edo45m · Yoshimune really wants to attend a festival in Edo, but he has important business to attend to in the palace. Jii says he can go out as long as he is back by 4 PM. This doesn't seem likely, since Yoshimune gets involved in a big fistfight and village drama.▶19. A Ballad of a Fireman45m · Tatsugoro's family is indebted to a samurai family, so Tatsugoro gives the samurai family his very best fireman to adopt, since the samurai have no heir of their own. The other samurai do not like him.▶20. Iris and Sympathy45m · ▶21. Fireman's Standard was Watching45m · ▶22. Friendships Support the World45m · ▶23. Rage of the Fishmonger45m · ▶24. The Dreadful Shichi-ri Messengers45m · ▶25. Heavens! Great Trouble in Edo45m · ▶26. The Drunken Man Who was Promoted45m · ▶27. The Woman Who Challenged the Yagyu Family45m · ▶28. A Flower Blooms in the Dark45m · ▶29. The Goofiest Pickpocket in Edo45m · ▶30. The Misjudged Betrayer45m · ▶31. The Woman Who Disappeared from the Hunting Ground45m · ▶32. The Best Announcement of the Winner in Japan45m · Ryuko and Isonokaze were sumo wrestlers for a clan who tried to make them throw a match. Ryuko hides out at the fire house and meets Shin-san, who is very excitable and really, really wants to wrestle him. Eventually Shin-san learns of the wrestling drama that is unfolding...▶33. A Daimyo's Famed Shiruko Restaurant45m · A certain han ruled by a child lord is having money trouble, so one of the han's samurai starts a sweet bean soup restaurant to try and raise funds. The samurai has some trouble getting customers...▶34. The Women Who Dance in a Tempest45m · ▶35. The Bride with an Explosive45m · A land reclamation project is taking place largely with Shogunate funds, carried out by contract with 2 companies (which are marrying their kids together as the ultimate symbol of the contract). One of the companies invents a bomb with a long fuse, to blow up a mountainous area in the reclamation zone. The other company decides to assassinate the first company, and steals the bomb...▶36. The Deceiving Mole Under a Woman's Eye45m · ▶37. Feel Her Heart45m · ▶38. The Woman Who Challenged Her Master45m · ▶39. A Sweet Snare from RyuKyu45m · ▶40. Go! The Prodogy of the Commoners45m · ▶41. Hara-Kiri! The Drunkard Magistrate45m · ▶42. A Hot Man and a Brazen Hussy45m · ▶43. The Shogun's Secret Ninja45m · Female ninja Osono's dad Seiemon comes to town. He is now a cotton-farming country samurai. Needs dried sardines for fertilizer. The hatamoto of sardineland is driving the fishermens' prices down so all the farmers secretly sell to Seiemon. The merchant tries to assassinate Seiemon and fails, since Seiemon is a ninja. Seiemon stays at the firehouse and plans to secretly assassinate the criminals, then kill himself, because he's depressed.▶44. Fresh Blood on the Bestowed Sword45m · ▶45. The Counterfeit Coins and the Candy Man45m · A man makes little pretty sugar candies for kids and tells funny stories. He used to be a counterfeiter because of his great manual dexterity, but vowed to turn his life around. Shin-san becomes interested in candy just when the guy's old friends force him to counterfeit again...▶46. A Grand New Year's Gift45m · ▶47. The Female Doctor with a Fist45m · Edo is invigorated by an unusually aggressive and outspoken female doctor, Oshino, who physically beats her patients if they do not obey her.▶48. Hell in the Heavenly Bath45m · ▶49. The Pen is Mightier Than The Sword45m · ▶50. The Great Packed Lunch of a Woman45m · ▶51. The Bride of the Fish Market45m · ▶52. The Downfall of Ooka Echizen No Kami45m · A bad gang leader kidnaps Tadasuke's wife (who never appeared before or since), as she went to the shrine to pray for a baby. Tadasuke decides that justice outweighs his bride and prepares to prosecute the gang leader anyway, so Shin-san lets the prisoner go secretly to try and follow him to Tadasuke's bride...▶53. The Best Dry Sake for Mother and Son45m · Clannish Edoite sake sellers turn against a travelling Osakan female sake seller to force her out of the market; only her long-lost son, an Edoite sake seller, can save her.▶54. The Female Doctor Who Loves Money45m · Oshino, the female doctor with a fist, is in charge of a temple that gives free medical service to orphans, but it is reputed that she is stealing all the money instead.▶55. This Small Incident Occured Ten Years Ago45m · Shoheiko, the official Shogunate college, has an admissions scandal where the bureaucrats turn out to have been accepting bribes for admissions. Yoshimune suggests opening it to commoners and calls up some obscure scholars; the vicious bureaucrats attack and kill one. Shin-san absolutely loses his mind, but Tatsugoro is there to give him a helping hand.▶56. The Man Who Died in the Light Snowfalls in Spring45m · Ryuko's friend is killed by a rice wholesaler. Shin-san investigates this and discovers a whole sordid rice-based drama, including collective punishment, famine, and assassination.▶57. Eliminations of Black Sheep45m · ▶58. The Best Cherry Blossom Dance in Edo45m · ▶59. The Firemen's Standard is the Firemen's Heart and Soul45m · ▶60. Only the Sun Knew45m · ▶61. The Perished Love in a Spring Storm45m · ▶62. A Single Flower in the Dark45m · ▶63. The Fallen Flower in the Game of Chance45m · ▶64. Holding a Fire Standard for a Spear45m · ▶65. The Troublesome Tea Urn Trip45m · ▶66. Daruma Smiled on Joshu Road45m · ▶67. Commissioner Ooka Committs Hara-Kiri!45m · ▶68. A Bogus Complaint45m · ▶69. Very Proud of the Celebrated Sword45m · An unbalanced ronin wants to become the sword teacher to a daimyo, so he can get enough money to buy back his really sexy sword from the pawn shop. However, a competitor attacks him, crippling the ronin's hand. Shin-san is really mad about this, even though the ronin attacked him earlier.▶70. A Loach Pot Rather Than A Domain45m · ▶71. The Best Godfather in Japan45m · ▶72. Revenge Colored with Safflowers45m · A pregnant safflower farmer's husband is run over by the local lord's horse. She's lured to the daikan's office to get compensated but is raped and turned into the lord's concubine instead. She schemes to have herself murdered so Ooka Echizen will enter the manor and discover these great crimes.▶73. A Man Passionate About the Snow on Mount Fuji45m · A kind but untalented kitchen-supervisor samurai is assigned to accompany his domain's gift to the Shogun: big blocks of ice. Shin-san, tramping around Shinjuku, accidentally discovers this delivery and starts accompanying it too, and discovers a rival domain is trying to kill the ice to humiliate the first domain.▶74. Kick the Edo Illness Out!45m · A mysterious illness (beriberi) becomes common and Yoshimune calls his doctor to find out what the cause is. His doctor says only his own special blend of medicine (very expensive) can cure it. Oshino, the female doctor with a fist, however, believes the solution is more simple (and involves punching people).▶75. Gorozaemon Kano's Disappearance45m · Kano Gorozaemon, who is practically Yoshimune's adoptive father, goes out into Edo to get a surprise present for the Shogun, and is kidnapped by a nutter who wants to frame him for murder to steal his job.▶76. Suspicion Begets Idle Fears45m · A lord lets 3 master ghost actresses into his house as maids, somehow doesn't connect this with supernatural happenings in his house.▶77. The Bride That Came From Kishu45m · Kikue, the daughter of a potter, comes to Edo and meets her old friend Shin-san, who she recognizes as the Shogun. She came to marry Kano Gorozaemon, who proposed to her when she was eight (??!) but Kano backed out.▶78. A Man Hunting the Whole Country45m · The Ogobanshu (kind of like a guild of hatamotos) want to hunt, but in setting the borders of the hunting area they recklessly steal the corner of a VERY sensitive farmer's farm.▶79. Peerless! The Taste of Momma45m · Matsumae domain officials and the store Ebisu-ya are conspiring to give predatory loans to alcohol shops. Lady merchant Omasa from Osaka wants to get a better deal, and her son unfortunately took the debt from his main sake supplier, so now she needs to get money to save both their skins.▶80. The Direct Retainers of the Shogun Run Wild45m · Hatamotos, a domain, a runaway killer samurai from the domain, the firemen, and jii for some reason, all end up in a gigantic free for all fight.▶81. Heroes in the Darkness45m · ▶82. Angelic Neighborhood Bully45m · ▶83. Thief Targeting the Nation45m · ▶84. O-sai Flies!45m · ▶85. Mount Fuji Saw The Wild Spear45m · ▶86. The Shogun Permitted a Thief45m · ▶87. Bullet Aiming At 8 Million Koku45m · ▶88. Burn! Even If You Must Die45m · ▶89. Embarrased To Recieve Flowers in Congratulation45m · ▶90. Beast Battle! Master Tatsugoro45m · ▶91. Duel! In the Stormy Castle45m · ▶92. Cheers! Quack Doctor45m · ▶93. The Will of the Raging Samurai45m · ▶94. The Lanterns of Early Spring and Noon Emerge45m · ▶95. I Saw a Rainbow in the Sea of Flames45m · ▶96. Get the Vermin Out of the Castle!45m · ▶97. I Don't Need a Mother!45m · ▶98. The Girl From the Wolf Village45m · ▶99. A Dohyori of Fire!45m · ▶100. The Fake Shogun45m · ▶101. The Eight Million Koku Porter45m · ▶102. The Collector Who Collected the Villain's Head45m · ▶103. Catastrophe! We Shouldn't Have Gotten Out of the Way!45m · ▶104. Japan's Most Wanted Bride45m · ▶105. Stop! Uncontrolled Official Carriage45m · ▶106. What is a Shogun?45m · ▶107. Watch Out! A Female Spy45m · ▶108. The Man Who Gives Orders to the Shogun!45m · ▶109. Snacks Delight on a Sunny Day45m · ▶110. Youth of Edo, Stand Up!45m · ▶111. Love Blossoms in Ubasuteyama!45m · ▶112. The Proud and Naive Samurai45m · ▶113. The Man Who Didn't Stop45m · ▶114. I Saw the Real One! The Hayabusa Brat45m · ▶115. Beware of the Quick Bucks45m · ▶116. The Man Who Died and Flourished45m · ▶117. Courage in the Face of Injustice45m · ▶118. Thief Training45m · ▶119. The Fox Woman Cries, the Banner of Empathy45m · ▶120. The Princess Take - Tears from a Wedding Procession45m · ▶121. The Flourishing of the Female Bushido45m · ▶122. The Sad Song of the South45m · ▶123. The New Boss! - Osai, of the Fire Extinguisher45m · ▶124. The One Who Stood Out After Being at Risk of Drowning45m · ▶125. Floating Lanterns That Mark a New Beginning in a Man's Life45m · ▶126. Love Sold for 20,000 Ryu45m · ▶127. The Trap in the Wolf Village45m · ▶128. Melancholy Ninja Love45m · ▶129. Dad, You Used to Be Someone45m · ▶130. My Childhood Friend is an Oku Woman45m · ▶131. There was a Bullet in the Clam Chowder!45m · ▶132. Run! The Shogun's Horse!45m · ▶133. Listen! The Chronicles of the Old Man and the Young Master45m · ▶134. A Silly Dance in an Oily Hell45m · ▶135. Duel on the Steam of Hell45m · ▶136. The Woman Who Bet on the Mountain of Fire45m · ▶137. Edo's Female Chief45m · ▶138. Hakone's Melancholic Drizzle45m · ▶139. The One Who Flirted Was to Blame45m · ▶140. The Wild Spear Everyone Fears45m · ▶141. The Bandit Harusame's Mother45m · ▶142. Munenryu Shintoism and Confucianism According to the Hayashi Clan45m · ▶143. I Am the Most Unpleasant Person in the World45m · Shin-san accidentally gets involved with two low-class thieving morons, to Tatsugoro's horror. Tatsugoro finally manages to get rid of them, and one of them is promptly killed by evil ninjas for having seen something he should not have. Yoshimune learns they were raising a bunch of orphans in an awful shack with their scammed money, and decides he must avenge the dead criminal.▶144. One Life For One Isshou of Shochu45m · ▶145. The Silent Man's Divorce Letter45m · ▶146. Ah! Justice Has Tears!45m · ▶147. Megumi Clan's Love Bridge45m · ▶148. Japan's Number One Little Thief45m · ▶149. Tops Spinning Beneath a False Union45m · ▶150. The White Waves That Shame the Flowers45m · ▶151. Sado, the Shining Yellow45m · ▶152. The Shogun, the Horse Thief, and the Brat45m · ▶153. When a Man Sparks45m · ▶154. The Love That Blooms Inside a Coffin45m · ▶155. I Don't Want to Be the Shogun's Bride45m · ▶156. Jongara with a Munen-Ryu Kid45m · ▶157. The Cursed Box of 1000 Ryos45m · ▶158. Hell's Bells Ring at 6.00 p.m45m · ▶159. Rest in Peace, Onaka - The Flowing Lanterns45m · ▶160. The Flowers That Fall Without Waiting for Spring45m · ▶161. The One Who Smiled in the End45m · ▶162. The Blooming Ginseng Flower That the Firefighter's Matoi Made Flourish45m · ▶163. The Cowardly Samurai Who Made a Demon Woman Cry45m · ▶164. Break the Chains of the Heart With Human Kindness45m · ▶165. Whose Ungrateful Son is it45m · ▶166. Promise of the Bell the Girl With Bangs and a Sword45m · ▶167. The Decisive Duel of the Lantern Samurai45m · ▶168. Legitimate Marital Fight45m · ▶169. Clear Sky - The Hungry Lancer45m · ▶170. The Duel! Blood in the Fuefuki River of Koshu45m · ▶171. Burning Tears of the Traitor45m · ▶172. The Flower in the Shadow That Made a Man Bloom45m · ▶173. Waves of the Seto Maiden45m · ▶174. Onomichi - Sunset of Revenge45m · ▶175. The Million Kokus Dependent45m · ▶176. The Bond of Hatred Between Father and Daughter45m · ▶177. The Morning When Demons Wept45m · ▶178. The Bet For the Dance Fan in the Sumo Ring45m · ▶179. The Samurai Tanuki Performs a Great Feat45m · ▶180. The Man Who Steals While Preaching45m · ▶181. Oath of Brothers45m · ▶182. The One Who Eats From the Table and the One Who Doesn't45m · ▶183. The Night Flower That Blooms Once45m · ▶184. The Man Who Danced in the Shadows45m · ▶185. The Man Who Danced in the Shadows45m · ▶186. The Love Story of a Man and His Taiko Drum45m · ▶187. Sorry, Shogun! The Change of a Monk45m · ▶188. Call of the Storm! The Bride From Megumi45m · ▶189. The Heart of a Mother That Made Demons Cry45m · ▶190. The Number One Rain Man in Japan45m · ▶191. Cold Wind of Yoshiwara, Tears of a Woman45m · ▶192. Laughter and Tears, The Dramatic Life of the People of Kawachi45m · ▶193. The First Snow is the Make-Up of the Dead of a Sad Woman45m · ▶194. The Poor and Nameless Grass45m · ▶195. The Fragrance of the Sea, Tastes Like Mama45m · ▶196. Why Sadness in Sharing an Umbrella?45m · ▶197. A Remora That is More Frightening Than a Pufferfish45m · ▶198. Sadness. Fallen Flowers of Those Who Stay45m · ▶199. The Villain Who Laughed Last45m · ▶200. Laughter and Tears, Three Girls From Edo45m · ▶201. The Greatest Achievement of a Drunken Jitte45m · ▶202. The Tale of the Fame of the Fool Kanpachi45m · ▶203. The Flower That Disappeared in an Avalanche45m · ▶204. Farewell Flower, Night Gust45m · ▶205. Spring Has Come Again! Spouses' Kanzashi45m · ▶206. You're a Child. Don't Cry, Torokichi!45m · ▶207. The Farewell of the 808 Towns45m ·
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