Abarenbo Shogun
1978•45m•8.1/10
FamilyDramaAction & Adventure
Ratings
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8.1/10(7)
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."
Production
TV Asahi, Toei Company
Language
JA
Status
Ended
First Aired
January 7, 1978
Last Aired
November 29, 2015
Networks
tv asahi
Where to Watch
Region US · Lang EN
US
No providers available for this region.
Seasons & Episodes
Select a season to view episodes. Reddit links may contain spoilers.
Season
E1
The Star of Edo
Air date: 1978-01-07
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.
E2
The Remarkable Charlatan
Air date: 1978-01-14
Ogyu Shosen is called a quack doctor, but Yoshimune thinks he should be made surgeon-general.
E3
The First Fireman Banner
Air date: 1978-01-21
Hatamoto firemen are causing a nuisance and thieving in town, so fiery Tatsugoro and his gang of construction workers aim to take them down.
E4
Mother From Long Past
Air date: 1978-01-28
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).
E5
Spring in the O'oku
Air date: 1978-02-04
E6
The Splendid Potato Samurai
Air date: 1978-02-11
E7
The Man of River Styx
Air date: 1978-02-25
E8
The Befouled Truncheon
Air date: 1978-03-04
E9
The Chivalrous Thief
Air date: 1978-03-11
E10
The Blossoming Meyasubako
Air date: 1978-03-18
E11
The Finest Kiyari Song
Air date: 1978-03-25
E12
The Amazing Kishu Woman
Air date: 1978-04-01
Yoshimune's old friend from Kishu, a female lumberjack, comes to Edo to engage in lumber trade, but gets in trouble.
E13
The Perilous Souvenir Gift
Air date: 1978-04-08
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.
E14
The Golden Crow Charms
Air date: 1978-04-15
Fireman Genzo wins the lottery, but is then reported to the police for having a forged ticket.
E15
The Quack Who Calls Forth Spring
Air date: 1978-04-22
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.
E16
Showdown at Beautiful Yoshiwara
Air date: 1978-04-29
E17
Love and the Guardian Deity
Air date: 1978-05-06
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!
E18
The Beat of a Taiko Drum in Edo
Air date: 1978-05-13
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.
E19
A Ballad of a Fireman
Air date: 1978-05-20
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.
E20
Iris and Sympathy
Air date: 1978-05-27
E21
Fireman's Standard was Watching
Air date: 1978-06-03
E22
Friendships Support the World
Air date: 1978-06-17
E23
Rage of the Fishmonger
Air date: 1978-06-24
E24
The Dreadful Shichi-ri Messengers
Air date: 1978-07-01
E25
Heavens! Great Trouble in Edo
Air date: 1978-07-08
E26
The Drunken Man Who was Promoted
Air date: 1978-07-15
E27
The Woman Who Challenged the Yagyu Family
Air date: 1978-07-22
E28
A Flower Blooms in the Dark
Air date: 1978-07-29
E29
The Goofiest Pickpocket in Edo
Air date: 1978-08-19
E30
The Misjudged Betrayer
Air date: 1978-09-09
E31
The Woman Who Disappeared from the Hunting Ground
Air date: 1978-09-16
E32
The Best Announcement of the Winner in Japan
Air date: 1978-09-23
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...
E33
A Daimyo's Famed Shiruko Restaurant
Air date: 1978-09-30
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...
E34
The Women Who Dance in a Tempest
Air date: 1978-10-07
E35
The Bride with an Explosive
Air date: 1978-10-14
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...
E36
The Deceiving Mole Under a Woman's Eye
Air date: 1978-10-21
E37
Feel Her Heart
Air date: 1978-10-28
E38
The Woman Who Challenged Her Master
Air date: 1978-11-04
E39
A Sweet Snare from RyuKyu
Air date: 1978-11-11
E40
Go! The Prodogy of the Commoners
Air date: 1978-11-18
E41
Hara-Kiri! The Drunkard Magistrate
Air date: 1978-12-02
E42
A Hot Man and a Brazen Hussy
Air date: 1978-12-09
E43
The Shogun's Secret Ninja
Air date: 1978-12-16
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.
E44
Fresh Blood on the Bestowed Sword
Air date: 1978-12-23
E45
The Counterfeit Coins and the Candy Man
Air date: 1978-12-30
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...
E46
A Grand New Year's Gift
Air date: 1979-01-06
E47
The Female Doctor with a Fist
Air date: 1979-01-13
Edo is invigorated by an unusually aggressive and outspoken female doctor, Oshino, who physically beats her patients if they do not obey her.
E48
Hell in the Heavenly Bath
Air date: 1979-01-20
E49
The Pen is Mightier Than The Sword
Air date: 1979-01-27
E50
The Great Packed Lunch of a Woman
Air date: 1979-02-03
E51
The Bride of the Fish Market
Air date: 1979-02-10
E52
The Downfall of Ooka Echizen No Kami
Air date: 1979-02-17
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...
E53
The Best Dry Sake for Mother and Son
Air date: 1979-02-24
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.
E54
The Female Doctor Who Loves Money
Air date: 1979-03-03
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.
E55
This Small Incident Occured Ten Years Ago
Air date: 1979-03-10
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.
E56
The Man Who Died in the Light Snowfalls in Spring
Air date: 1979-03-17
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.
E57
Eliminations of Black Sheep
Air date: 1979-03-24
E58
The Best Cherry Blossom Dance in Edo
Air date: 1979-03-31
E59
The Firemen's Standard is the Firemen's Heart and Soul
Air date: 1979-04-07
E60
Only the Sun Knew
Air date: 1979-04-14
E61
The Perished Love in a Spring Storm
Air date: 1979-04-21
E62
A Single Flower in the Dark
Air date: 1979-04-28
E63
The Fallen Flower in the Game of Chance
Air date: 1979-05-05
E64
Holding a Fire Standard for a Spear
Air date: 1979-05-12
E65
The Troublesome Tea Urn Trip
Air date: 1979-05-19
E66
Daruma Smiled on Joshu Road
Air date: 1979-05-26
E67
Commissioner Ooka Committs Hara-Kiri!
Air date: 1979-06-02
E68
A Bogus Complaint
Air date: 1979-06-09
E69
Very Proud of the Celebrated Sword
Air date: 1979-06-16
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.
E70
A Loach Pot Rather Than A Domain
Air date: 1979-06-23
E71
The Best Godfather in Japan
Air date: 1979-06-30
E72
Revenge Colored with Safflowers
Air date: 1979-07-07
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.
E73
A Man Passionate About the Snow on Mount Fuji
Air date: 1979-07-14
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.
E74
Kick the Edo Illness Out!
Air date: 1979-07-21
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).
E75
Gorozaemon Kano's Disappearance
Air date: 1979-08-11
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.
E76
Suspicion Begets Idle Fears
Air date: 1979-08-18
A lord lets 3 master ghost actresses into his house as maids, somehow doesn't connect this with supernatural happenings in his house.
E77
The Bride That Came From Kishu
Air date: 1979-08-25
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.
E78
A Man Hunting the Whole Country
Air date: 1979-09-08
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.
E79
Peerless! The Taste of Momma
Air date: 1979-09-15
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.
E80
The Direct Retainers of the Shogun Run Wild
Air date: 1979-09-22
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.
E81
Heroes in the Darkness
Air date: 1979-09-29
E82
Angelic Neighborhood Bully
Air date: 1979-10-13
E83
Thief Targeting the Nation
Air date: 1979-10-20
E84
O-sai Flies!
Air date: 1979-10-27
E85
Mount Fuji Saw The Wild Spear
Air date: 1979-11-03
E86
The Shogun Permitted a Thief
Air date: 1979-11-10
E87
Bullet Aiming At 8 Million Koku
Air date: 1979-11-17
E88
Burn! Even If You Must Die
Air date: 1979-11-24
E89
Embarrased To Recieve Flowers in Congratulation
Air date: 1979-12-01
E90
Beast Battle! Master Tatsugoro
Air date: 1979-12-08
E91
Duel! In the Stormy Castle
Air date: 1979-12-15
E92
Cheers! Quack Doctor
Air date: 1979-12-22
E93
The Will of the Raging Samurai
Air date: 1979-12-29
E94
The Lanterns of Early Spring and Noon Emerge
Air date: 1980-01-05
E95
I Saw a Rainbow in the Sea of Flames
Air date: 1980-01-12
E96
Get the Vermin Out of the Castle!
Air date: 1980-01-19
E97
I Don't Need a Mother!
Air date: 1980-01-26
E98
The Girl From the Wolf Village
Air date: 1980-02-02
E99
A Dohyori of Fire!
Air date: 1980-02-09
E100
The Fake Shogun
Air date: 1980-02-16
E101
The Eight Million Koku Porter
Air date: 1980-02-23
E102
The Collector Who Collected the Villain's Head
Air date: 1980-03-01
E103
Catastrophe! We Shouldn't Have Gotten Out of the Way!
Air date: 1980-03-08
E104
Japan's Most Wanted Bride
Air date: 1980-03-22
E105
Stop! Uncontrolled Official Carriage
Air date: 1980-03-29
E106
What is a Shogun?
Air date: 1980-04-05
E107
Watch Out! A Female Spy
Air date: 1980-04-12
E108
The Man Who Gives Orders to the Shogun!
Air date: 1980-04-19
E109
Snacks Delight on a Sunny Day
Air date: 1980-04-26
E110
Youth of Edo, Stand Up!
Air date: 1980-05-03
E111
Love Blossoms in Ubasuteyama!
Air date: 1980-05-10
E112
The Proud and Naive Samurai
Air date: 1980-05-17
E113
The Man Who Didn't Stop
Air date: 1980-05-24
E114
I Saw the Real One! The Hayabusa Brat
Air date: 1980-05-31
E115
Beware of the Quick Bucks
Air date: 1980-06-07
E116
The Man Who Died and Flourished
Air date: 1980-06-14
E117
Courage in the Face of Injustice
Air date: 1980-06-21
E118
Thief Training
Air date: 1980-06-28
E119
The Fox Woman Cries, the Banner of Empathy
Air date: 1980-07-05
E120
The Princess Take - Tears from a Wedding Procession
Air date: 1980-07-12
E121
The Flourishing of the Female Bushido
Air date: 1980-07-19
E122
The Sad Song of the South
Air date: 1980-07-26
E123
The New Boss! - Osai, of the Fire Extinguisher
Air date: 1980-08-02
E124
The One Who Stood Out After Being at Risk of Drowning
Air date: 1980-08-09
E125
Floating Lanterns That Mark a New Beginning in a Man's Life
Air date: 1980-08-16
E126
Love Sold for 20,000 Ryu
Air date: 1980-08-23
E127
The Trap in the Wolf Village
Air date: 1980-08-30
E128
Melancholy Ninja Love
Air date: 1980-09-06
E129
Dad, You Used to Be Someone
Air date: 1980-09-13
E130
My Childhood Friend is an Oku Woman
Air date: 1980-09-27
E131
There was a Bullet in the Clam Chowder!
Air date: 1980-10-04
E132
Run! The Shogun's Horse!
Air date: 1980-10-11
E133
Listen! The Chronicles of the Old Man and the Young Master
Air date: 1980-10-18
E134
A Silly Dance in an Oily Hell
Air date: 1980-10-25
E135
Duel on the Steam of Hell
Air date: 1980-11-01
E136
The Woman Who Bet on the Mountain of Fire
Air date: 1980-11-08
E137
Edo's Female Chief
Air date: 1980-11-15
E138
Hakone's Melancholic Drizzle
Air date: 1980-11-22
E139
The One Who Flirted Was to Blame
Air date: 1980-11-29
E140
The Wild Spear Everyone Fears
Air date: 1980-12-06
E141
The Bandit Harusame's Mother
Air date: 1980-12-20
E142
Munenryu Shintoism and Confucianism According to the Hayashi Clan
Air date: 1980-12-27
E143
I Am the Most Unpleasant Person in the World
Air date: 1981-01-10
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.
E144
One Life For One Isshou of Shochu
Air date: 1981-01-17
E145
The Silent Man's Divorce Letter
Air date: 1981-01-24
E146
Ah! Justice Has Tears!
Air date: 1981-01-31
E147
Megumi Clan's Love Bridge
Air date: 1981-02-07
E148
Japan's Number One Little Thief
Air date: 1981-02-14
E149
Tops Spinning Beneath a False Union
Air date: 1981-02-21
E150
The White Waves That Shame the Flowers
Air date: 1981-02-28
E151
Sado, the Shining Yellow
Air date: 1981-03-07
E152
The Shogun, the Horse Thief, and the Brat
Air date: 1981-03-14
E153
When a Man Sparks
Air date: 1981-03-21
E154
The Love That Blooms Inside a Coffin
Air date: 1981-03-28
E155
I Don't Want to Be the Shogun's Bride
Air date: 1981-04-11
E156
Jongara with a Munen-Ryu Kid
Air date: 1981-04-18
E157
The Cursed Box of 1000 Ryos
Air date: 1981-04-25
E158
Hell's Bells Ring at 6.00 p.m
Air date: 1981-05-02
E159
Rest in Peace, Onaka - The Flowing Lanterns
Air date: 1981-05-09
E160
The Flowers That Fall Without Waiting for Spring
Air date: 1981-05-16
E161
The One Who Smiled in the End
Air date: 1981-05-23
E162
The Blooming Ginseng Flower That the Firefighter's Matoi Made Flourish
Air date: 1981-05-30
E163
The Cowardly Samurai Who Made a Demon Woman Cry
Air date: 1981-06-06
E164
Break the Chains of the Heart With Human Kindness
Air date: 1981-06-13
E165
Whose Ungrateful Son is it
Air date: 1981-06-20
E166
Promise of the Bell the Girl With Bangs and a Sword
Air date: 1981-06-27
E167
The Decisive Duel of the Lantern Samurai
Air date: 1981-07-04
E168
Legitimate Marital Fight
Air date: 1981-07-11
E169
Clear Sky - The Hungry Lancer
Air date: 1981-07-18
E170
The Duel! Blood in the Fuefuki River of Koshu
Air date: 1981-08-01
E171
Burning Tears of the Traitor
Air date: 1981-08-08
E172
The Flower in the Shadow That Made a Man Bloom
Air date: 1981-08-15
E173
Waves of the Seto Maiden
Air date: 1981-08-22
E174
Onomichi - Sunset of Revenge
Air date: 1981-08-29
E175
The Million Kokus Dependent
Air date: 1981-09-05
E176
The Bond of Hatred Between Father and Daughter
Air date: 1981-09-12
E177
The Morning When Demons Wept
Air date: 1981-09-19
E178
The Bet For the Dance Fan in the Sumo Ring
Air date: 1981-09-26
E179
The Samurai Tanuki Performs a Great Feat
Air date: 1981-10-03
E180
The Man Who Steals While Preaching
Air date: 1981-10-10
E181
Oath of Brothers
Air date: 1981-10-17
E182
The One Who Eats From the Table and the One Who Doesn't
Air date: 1981-10-24
E183
The Night Flower That Blooms Once
Air date: 1981-10-31
E184
The Man Who Danced in the Shadows
Air date: 1981-11-07
E185
The Man Who Danced in the Shadows
Air date: 1981-11-14
E186
The Love Story of a Man and His Taiko Drum
Air date: 1981-11-21
E187
Sorry, Shogun! The Change of a Monk
Air date: 1981-11-28
E188
Call of the Storm! The Bride From Megumi
Air date: 1981-12-05
E189
The Heart of a Mother That Made Demons Cry
Air date: 1981-12-12
E190
The Number One Rain Man in Japan
Air date: 1981-12-19
E191
Cold Wind of Yoshiwara, Tears of a Woman
Air date: 1981-12-26
E192
Laughter and Tears, The Dramatic Life of the People of Kawachi
Air date: 1982-01-09
E193
The First Snow is the Make-Up of the Dead of a Sad Woman
Air date: 1982-01-16
E194
The Poor and Nameless Grass
Air date: 1982-01-23
E195
The Fragrance of the Sea, Tastes Like Mama
Air date: 1982-01-30
E196
Why Sadness in Sharing an Umbrella?
Air date: 1982-02-06
E197
A Remora That is More Frightening Than a Pufferfish
Air date: 1982-02-13
E198
Sadness. Fallen Flowers of Those Who Stay
Air date: 1982-02-20
E199
The Villain Who Laughed Last
Air date: 1982-02-27
E200
Laughter and Tears, Three Girls From Edo
Air date: 1982-03-06
E201
The Greatest Achievement of a Drunken Jitte
Air date: 1982-03-13
E202
The Tale of the Fame of the Fool Kanpachi
Air date: 1982-03-20
E203
The Flower That Disappeared in an Avalanche
Air date: 1982-03-27
E204
Farewell Flower, Night Gust
Air date: 1982-04-10
E205
Spring Has Come Again! Spouses' Kanzashi
Air date: 1982-04-17
E206
You're a Child. Don't Cry, Torokichi!
Air date: 1982-04-24
E207
The Farewell of the 808 Towns
Air date: 1982-05-01
Cast
Ken Matsudaira
Tokugawa Yoshimune
Saburo Kitajima
Tatsugoro
Tadashi Yokouchi
Oo'oka Echizen-no-Kami Tadasuke
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