Gokenin Zankurō (1997)

Original title

御家人斬九郎

Directed by

Eiichi Kudo, Kōsei Saitō

Genre

Jidaigeki

Country

Japan

Length

5 seasons, 50 episodes

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A low-ranking samurai in the Tokugawa shogunate takes on extra work as a bodyguard and executioner because he is always short on money. His mother, a proud and capable woman from a prestigious family, thinks little of him.

slow-burndourmelancholicgroundeddryly humorouscharacter-drivenperiod-specificbleakunderstated

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