Series
Abarenbo Shogun
FamilyDramaAction & 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."
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Seasons & episodes
S1 · 207 epS2 · 191 epS3 · 129 epS4 · 74 epS5 · 44 epS6 · 51 epS7 · 18 epS8 · 24 epS9 · 38 epS10 · 26 epS11 · 19 epS12 · 13 ep
- 1The Star of Edo7 Jan 1978 · 45mRoughhousing 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.
- 2The Remarkable Charlatan14 Jan 1978 · 45mOgyu Shosen is called a quack doctor, but Yoshimune thinks he should be made surgeon-general.
- 3The First Fireman Banner21 Jan 1978 · 45mHatamoto firemen are causing a nuisance and thieving in town, so fiery Tatsugoro and his gang of construction workers aim to take them down.
- 4Mother From Long Past28 Jan 1978 · 45mA 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).
- 5Spring in the O'oku4 Feb 1978 · 45m
- 6The Splendid Potato Samurai11 Feb 1978 · 45m
- 7The Man of River Styx25 Feb 1978 · 45m
- 8The Befouled Truncheon4 Mar 1978 · 45m
- 9The Chivalrous Thief11 Mar 1978 · 45m
- 10The Blossoming Meyasubako18 Mar 1978 · 45m
- 11The Finest Kiyari Song25 Mar 1978 · 45m
- 12The Amazing Kishu Woman1 Apr 1978 · 45mYoshimune's old friend from Kishu, a female lumberjack, comes to Edo to engage in lumber trade, but gets in trouble.
- 13The Perilous Souvenir Gift8 Apr 1978 · 45mYoshimune'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.
- 14The Golden Crow Charms15 Apr 1978 · 45mFireman Genzo wins the lottery, but is then reported to the police for having a forged ticket.
- 15The Quack Who Calls Forth Spring22 Apr 1978 · 45mEven 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.
- 16Showdown at Beautiful Yoshiwara29 Apr 1978 · 45m
- 17Love and the Guardian Deity6 May 1978 · 45mSatsuma 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!
- 18The Beat of a Taiko Drum in Edo13 May 1978 · 45mYoshimune 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.
- 19A Ballad of a Fireman20 May 1978 · 45mTatsugoro'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.
- 20Iris and Sympathy27 May 1978 · 45m
- 21Fireman's Standard was Watching3 Jun 1978 · 45m
- 22Friendships Support the World17 Jun 1978 · 45m
- 23Rage of the Fishmonger24 Jun 1978 · 45m
- 24The Dreadful Shichi-ri Messengers1 Jul 1978 · 45m
- 25Heavens! Great Trouble in Edo8 Jul 1978 · 45m
- 26The Drunken Man Who was Promoted15 Jul 1978 · 45m
- 27The Woman Who Challenged the Yagyu Family22 Jul 1978 · 45m
- 28A Flower Blooms in the Dark29 Jul 1978 · 45m
- 29The Goofiest Pickpocket in Edo19 Aug 1978 · 45m
- 30The Misjudged Betrayer9 Sept 1978 · 45m
- 31The Woman Who Disappeared from the Hunting Ground16 Sept 1978 · 45m
- 32The Best Announcement of the Winner in Japan23 Sept 1978 · 45mRyuko 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...
- 33A Daimyo's Famed Shiruko Restaurant30 Sept 1978 · 45mA 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...
- 34The Women Who Dance in a Tempest7 Oct 1978 · 45m
- 35The Bride with an Explosive14 Oct 1978 · 45mA 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...
- 36The Deceiving Mole Under a Woman's Eye21 Oct 1978 · 45m
- 37Feel Her Heart28 Oct 1978 · 45m
- 38The Woman Who Challenged Her Master4 Nov 1978 · 45m
- 39A Sweet Snare from RyuKyu11 Nov 1978 · 45m
- 40Go! The Prodogy of the Commoners18 Nov 1978 · 45m
- 41Hara-Kiri! The Drunkard Magistrate2 Dec 1978 · 45m
- 42A Hot Man and a Brazen Hussy9 Dec 1978 · 45m
- 43The Shogun's Secret Ninja16 Dec 1978 · 45mFemale 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.
- 44Fresh Blood on the Bestowed Sword23 Dec 1978 · 45m
- 45The Counterfeit Coins and the Candy Man30 Dec 1978 · 45mA 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...
- 46A Grand New Year's Gift6 Jan 1979 · 45m
- 47The Female Doctor with a Fist13 Jan 1979 · 45mEdo is invigorated by an unusually aggressive and outspoken female doctor, Oshino, who physically beats her patients if they do not obey her.
- 48Hell in the Heavenly Bath20 Jan 1979 · 45m
- 49The Pen is Mightier Than The Sword27 Jan 1979 · 45m
- 50The Great Packed Lunch of a Woman3 Feb 1979 · 45m
- 51The Bride of the Fish Market10 Feb 1979 · 45m
- 52The Downfall of Ooka Echizen No Kami17 Feb 1979 · 45mA 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...
- 53The Best Dry Sake for Mother and Son24 Feb 1979 · 45mClannish 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.
- 54The Female Doctor Who Loves Money3 Mar 1979 · 45mOshino, 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.
- 55This Small Incident Occured Ten Years Ago10 Mar 1979 · 45mShoheiko, 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.
- 56The Man Who Died in the Light Snowfalls in Spring17 Mar 1979 · 45mRyuko'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.
- 57Eliminations of Black Sheep24 Mar 1979 · 45m
- 58The Best Cherry Blossom Dance in Edo31 Mar 1979 · 45m
- 59The Firemen's Standard is the Firemen's Heart and Soul7 Apr 1979 · 45m
- 60Only the Sun Knew14 Apr 1979 · 45m
- 61The Perished Love in a Spring Storm21 Apr 1979 · 45m
- 62A Single Flower in the Dark28 Apr 1979 · 45m
- 63The Fallen Flower in the Game of Chance5 May 1979 · 45m
- 64Holding a Fire Standard for a Spear12 May 1979 · 45m
- 65The Troublesome Tea Urn Trip19 May 1979 · 45m
- 66Daruma Smiled on Joshu Road26 May 1979 · 45m
- 67Commissioner Ooka Committs Hara-Kiri!2 Jun 1979 · 45m
- 68A Bogus Complaint9 Jun 1979 · 45m
- 69Very Proud of the Celebrated Sword16 Jun 1979 · 45mAn 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.
- 70A Loach Pot Rather Than A Domain23 Jun 1979 · 45m
- 71The Best Godfather in Japan30 Jun 1979 · 45m
- 72Revenge Colored with Safflowers7 Jul 1979 · 45mA 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.
- 73A Man Passionate About the Snow on Mount Fuji14 Jul 1979 · 45mA 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.
- 74Kick the Edo Illness Out!21 Jul 1979 · 45mA 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).
- 75Gorozaemon Kano's Disappearance11 Aug 1979 · 45mKano 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.
- 76Suspicion Begets Idle Fears18 Aug 1979 · 45mA lord lets 3 master ghost actresses into his house as maids, somehow doesn't connect this with supernatural happenings in his house.
- 77The Bride That Came From Kishu25 Aug 1979 · 45mKikue, 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.
- 78A Man Hunting the Whole Country8 Sept 1979 · 45mThe 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.
- 79Peerless! The Taste of Momma15 Sept 1979 · 45mMatsumae 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.
- 80The Direct Retainers of the Shogun Run Wild22 Sept 1979 · 45mHatamotos, 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.
- 81Heroes in the Darkness29 Sept 1979 · 45m
- 82Angelic Neighborhood Bully13 Oct 1979 · 45m
- 83Thief Targeting the Nation20 Oct 1979 · 45m
- 84O-sai Flies!27 Oct 1979 · 45m
- 85Mount Fuji Saw The Wild Spear3 Nov 1979 · 45m
- 86The Shogun Permitted a Thief10 Nov 1979 · 45m
- 87Bullet Aiming At 8 Million Koku17 Nov 1979 · 45m
- 88Burn! Even If You Must Die24 Nov 1979 · 45m
- 89Embarrased To Recieve Flowers in Congratulation1 Dec 1979 · 45m
- 90Beast Battle! Master Tatsugoro8 Dec 1979 · 45m
- 91Duel! In the Stormy Castle15 Dec 1979 · 45m
- 92Cheers! Quack Doctor22 Dec 1979 · 45m
- 93The Will of the Raging Samurai29 Dec 1979 · 45m
- 94The Lanterns of Early Spring and Noon Emerge5 Jan 1980 · 45m
- 95I Saw a Rainbow in the Sea of Flames12 Jan 1980 · 45m
- 96Get the Vermin Out of the Castle!19 Jan 1980 · 45m
- 97I Don't Need a Mother!26 Jan 1980 · 45m
- 98The Girl From the Wolf Village2 Feb 1980 · 45m
- 99A Dohyori of Fire!9 Feb 1980 · 45m
- 100The Fake Shogun16 Feb 1980 · 45m
- 101The Eight Million Koku Porter23 Feb 1980 · 45m
- 102The Collector Who Collected the Villain's Head1 Mar 1980 · 45m
- 103Catastrophe! We Shouldn't Have Gotten Out of the Way!8 Mar 1980 · 45m
- 104Japan's Most Wanted Bride22 Mar 1980 · 45m
- 105Stop! Uncontrolled Official Carriage29 Mar 1980 · 45m
- 106What is a Shogun?5 Apr 1980 · 45m
- 107Watch Out! A Female Spy12 Apr 1980 · 45m
- 108The Man Who Gives Orders to the Shogun!19 Apr 1980 · 45m
- 109Snacks Delight on a Sunny Day26 Apr 1980 · 45m
- 110Youth of Edo, Stand Up!3 May 1980 · 45m
- 111Love Blossoms in Ubasuteyama!10 May 1980 · 45m
- 112The Proud and Naive Samurai17 May 1980 · 45m
- 113The Man Who Didn't Stop24 May 1980 · 45m
- 114I Saw the Real One! The Hayabusa Brat31 May 1980 · 45m
- 115Beware of the Quick Bucks7 Jun 1980 · 45m
- 116The Man Who Died and Flourished14 Jun 1980 · 45m
- 117Courage in the Face of Injustice21 Jun 1980 · 45m
- 118Thief Training28 Jun 1980 · 45m
- 119The Fox Woman Cries, the Banner of Empathy5 Jul 1980 · 45m
- 120The Princess Take - Tears from a Wedding Procession12 Jul 1980 · 45m
- 121The Flourishing of the Female Bushido19 Jul 1980 · 45m
- 122The Sad Song of the South26 Jul 1980 · 45m
- 123The New Boss! - Osai, of the Fire Extinguisher2 Aug 1980 · 45m
- 124The One Who Stood Out After Being at Risk of Drowning9 Aug 1980 · 45m
- 125Floating Lanterns That Mark a New Beginning in a Man's Life16 Aug 1980 · 45m
- 126Love Sold for 20,000 Ryu23 Aug 1980 · 45m
- 127The Trap in the Wolf Village30 Aug 1980 · 45m
- 128Melancholy Ninja Love6 Sept 1980 · 45m
- 129Dad, You Used to Be Someone13 Sept 1980 · 45m
- 130My Childhood Friend is an Oku Woman27 Sept 1980 · 45m
- 131There was a Bullet in the Clam Chowder!4 Oct 1980 · 45m
- 132Run! The Shogun's Horse!11 Oct 1980 · 45m
- 133Listen! The Chronicles of the Old Man and the Young Master18 Oct 1980 · 45m
- 134A Silly Dance in an Oily Hell25 Oct 1980 · 45m
- 135Duel on the Steam of Hell1 Nov 1980 · 45m
- 136The Woman Who Bet on the Mountain of Fire8 Nov 1980 · 45m
- 137Edo's Female Chief15 Nov 1980 · 45m
- 138Hakone's Melancholic Drizzle22 Nov 1980 · 45m
- 139The One Who Flirted Was to Blame29 Nov 1980 · 45m
- 140The Wild Spear Everyone Fears6 Dec 1980 · 45m
- 141The Bandit Harusame's Mother20 Dec 1980 · 45m
- 142Munenryu Shintoism and Confucianism According to the Hayashi Clan27 Dec 1980 · 45m
- 143I Am the Most Unpleasant Person in the World10 Jan 1981 · 45mShin-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.
- 144One Life For One Isshou of Shochu17 Jan 1981 · 45m
- 145The Silent Man's Divorce Letter24 Jan 1981 · 45m
- 146Ah! Justice Has Tears!31 Jan 1981 · 45m
- 147Megumi Clan's Love Bridge7 Feb 1981 · 45m
- 148Japan's Number One Little Thief14 Feb 1981 · 45m
- 149Tops Spinning Beneath a False Union21 Feb 1981 · 45m
- 150The White Waves That Shame the Flowers28 Feb 1981 · 45m
- 151Sado, the Shining Yellow7 Mar 1981 · 45m
- 152The Shogun, the Horse Thief, and the Brat14 Mar 1981 · 45m
- 153When a Man Sparks21 Mar 1981 · 45m
- 154The Love That Blooms Inside a Coffin28 Mar 1981 · 45m
- 155I Don't Want to Be the Shogun's Bride11 Apr 1981 · 45m
- 156Jongara with a Munen-Ryu Kid18 Apr 1981 · 45m
- 157The Cursed Box of 1000 Ryos25 Apr 1981 · 45m
- 158Hell's Bells Ring at 6.00 p.m2 May 1981 · 45m
- 159Rest in Peace, Onaka - The Flowing Lanterns9 May 1981 · 45m
- 160The Flowers That Fall Without Waiting for Spring16 May 1981 · 45m
- 161The One Who Smiled in the End23 May 1981 · 45m
- 162The Blooming Ginseng Flower That the Firefighter's Matoi Made Flourish30 May 1981 · 45m
- 163The Cowardly Samurai Who Made a Demon Woman Cry6 Jun 1981 · 45m
- 164Break the Chains of the Heart With Human Kindness13 Jun 1981 · 45m
- 165Whose Ungrateful Son is it20 Jun 1981 · 45m
- 166Promise of the Bell the Girl With Bangs and a Sword27 Jun 1981 · 45m
- 167The Decisive Duel of the Lantern Samurai4 Jul 1981 · 45m
- 168Legitimate Marital Fight11 Jul 1981 · 45m
- 169Clear Sky - The Hungry Lancer18 Jul 1981 · 45m
- 170The Duel! Blood in the Fuefuki River of Koshu1 Aug 1981 · 45m
- 171Burning Tears of the Traitor8 Aug 1981 · 45m
- 172The Flower in the Shadow That Made a Man Bloom15 Aug 1981 · 45m
- 173Waves of the Seto Maiden22 Aug 1981 · 45m
- 174Onomichi - Sunset of Revenge29 Aug 1981 · 45m
- 175The Million Kokus Dependent5 Sept 1981 · 45m
- 176The Bond of Hatred Between Father and Daughter12 Sept 1981 · 45m
- 177The Morning When Demons Wept19 Sept 1981 · 45m
- 178The Bet For the Dance Fan in the Sumo Ring26 Sept 1981 · 45m
- 179The Samurai Tanuki Performs a Great Feat3 Oct 1981 · 45m
- 180The Man Who Steals While Preaching10 Oct 1981 · 45m
- 181Oath of Brothers17 Oct 1981 · 45m
- 182The One Who Eats From the Table and the One Who Doesn't24 Oct 1981 · 45m
- 183The Night Flower That Blooms Once31 Oct 1981 · 45m
- 184The Man Who Danced in the Shadows7 Nov 1981 · 45m
- 185The Man Who Danced in the Shadows14 Nov 1981 · 45m
- 186The Love Story of a Man and His Taiko Drum21 Nov 1981 · 45m
- 187Sorry, Shogun! The Change of a Monk28 Nov 1981 · 45m
- 188Call of the Storm! The Bride From Megumi5 Dec 1981 · 45m
- 189The Heart of a Mother That Made Demons Cry12 Dec 1981 · 45m
- 190The Number One Rain Man in Japan19 Dec 1981 · 45m
- 191Cold Wind of Yoshiwara, Tears of a Woman26 Dec 1981 · 45m
- 192Laughter and Tears, The Dramatic Life of the People of Kawachi9 Jan 1982 · 45m
- 193The First Snow is the Make-Up of the Dead of a Sad Woman16 Jan 1982 · 45m
- 194The Poor and Nameless Grass23 Jan 1982 · 45m
- 195The Fragrance of the Sea, Tastes Like Mama30 Jan 1982 · 45m
- 196Why Sadness in Sharing an Umbrella?6 Feb 1982 · 45m
- 197A Remora That is More Frightening Than a Pufferfish13 Feb 1982 · 45m
- 198Sadness. Fallen Flowers of Those Who Stay20 Feb 1982 · 45m
- 199The Villain Who Laughed Last27 Feb 1982 · 45m
- 200Laughter and Tears, Three Girls From Edo6 Mar 1982 · 45m
- 201The Greatest Achievement of a Drunken Jitte13 Mar 1982 · 45m
- 202The Tale of the Fame of the Fool Kanpachi20 Mar 1982 · 45m
- 203The Flower That Disappeared in an Avalanche27 Mar 1982 · 45m
- 204Farewell Flower, Night Gust10 Apr 1982 · 45m
- 205Spring Has Come Again! Spouses' Kanzashi17 Apr 1982 · 45m
- 206You're a Child. Don't Cry, Torokichi!24 Apr 1982 · 45m
- 207The Farewell of the 808 Towns1 May 1982 · 45m
Details
- First aired
- 7 Jan 1978
- Last aired
- 29 Nov 2015
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- Japanese
- Network
- tv asahi
- Episodes
- 834
- Votes
- 8 on TMDB
Cast
Ken MatsudairaTokugawa Yoshimune
Saburo KitajimaTatsugoro
Tadashi YokouchiOo'oka Echizen-no-Kami Tadasuke
