Set in the eighteenth century, during the reign of the fifth Tokugawa shōgun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. Akō-han is demolished by the Tokugawa shogunate. Hotta Hayato is a ronin who is living a desperate life because of his sad past. But one day he starts working for Chisaka Takafusa, the Chief retainer of the Uesugi clan. The Uesugi clan and Chisaka are wary of Ōishi Kuranosuke and Ako Roshi's movements, so Chisaka orders Hotta to observe Ōishi Kuranosuke.

Tomoko Aihara

Okô

Shigeru Amachi

Wakizaka Awaji-no-Kami

Gorō Ibuki

Horibe Yasubei

Nobuo Kawai

Fujii Mataemon

Yūsuke Kawazu

Kobayashi Heihachirô

Kyôko Kishida

Ôishi Riku

Akiji Kobayashi

Hara Soemon

Ken Matsudaira

Asano Takumi-no-Kami

Hiroki Matsukata

Keiko Matsuzaka

Aguri

Yūki Meguro

Uesugi Noritsuna

Toshirō Mifune

Tachibana Sakon

• Tan TakaiwaExecutive Producer
• Toru TakemitsuOriginal Music Composer

First aired

April 16, 1979

Last aired

December 17, 1979

Status

Ended

Original language

Japanese

Episodes

36

• Season 136 episodes · 1979

• Oda Nobunaga

  1989

• 

  Kinagashi Bugyō

  1981

• 

  On-yado Kawasemi

  2003

• 

  Sanada Yukimura

  1989

• 

  License to Kill

  1980

• 

  Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Youthful Days in Edo

  2026

• 

  Tsukahara Bokuden

  2011

• 

  Ronin of the Wastelands

  1972

• 

  Miyamoto Musashi

  2014

• 

  Kenkaku Shōbai

  1998

• 

  大岡越前

  1970

• 

  Shouga Dorama Tokugawa ☆ Ieyasu

  2021