Abarenbô Shôgun - Season 1
Season 1
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DatesJan 7, 1978 - Sep 29, 1979
Episodes
Season 1Episode 155 min
The Star of Edo
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.
Jan 7, 1978
Season 1Episode 255 min
Remarkable Charlatan
Ogyu Shosen is called a quack doctor, but Yoshimune thinks he should be made surgeon-general.
Jan 14, 1978
Season 1Episode 355 min
The First Firemen Banner
Hatamoto firemen are causing a nuisance and thieving in town, so fiery Tatsugoro and his gang of construction workers aim to take them down.
Jan 21, 1978
Season 1Episode 455 min
Mother From Long Past
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).
Jan 28, 1978
Season 1Episode 555 min
Spring in the O'oku
Feb 4, 1978
Season 1Episode 655 min
The Splendid Potato Samurai
Feb 11, 1978
Season 1Episode 755 min
Man of the River Styx
Feb 25, 1978
Season 1Episode 855 min
The Befouled Truncheon
Mar 4, 1978
Season 1Episode 955 min
The Chivalrous Thief
Mar 11, 1978
Season 1Episode 1055 min
The Blossoming Meyasubako
Mar 18, 1978
Season 1Episode 1155 min
The Finest Kiyari Song
Mar 25, 1978
Season 1Episode 1255 min
The Amazing Kishu Woman
Yoshimune's old friend from Kishu, a female lumberjack, comes to Edo to engage in lumber trade, but gets in trouble.
Apr 1, 1978
Season 1Episode 1355 min
The Perilous Souvenir Gift
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.
Apr 8, 1978
Season 1Episode 1455 min
The Golden Crow Charms
Fireman Genzo wins the lottery, but is then reported to the police for having a forged ticket.
Apr 15, 1978
Season 1Episode 1555 min
The Quack who Calls Forth Spring
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.
Apr 22, 1978
Season 1Episode 1655 min
Showdown at Beautiful Yoshiwara
Apr 29, 1978
Season 1Episode 1755 min
Love and the Guardian Deity
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!
May 6, 1978
Season 1Episode 1855 min
The Beat of a Taiko Drum in Edo
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.
May 13, 1978
Season 1Episode 1955 min
A Ballad of a Fireman
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.
May 20, 1978
Season 1Episode 2055 min
Iris and Sympathy
May 27, 1978
Season 1Episode 2155 min
Firemen‘s Standard was Watching
Jun 3, 1978
Season 1Episode 2255 min
Friendships Support the World
Jun 17, 1978
Season 1Episode 2355 min
Rage of the Fishmonger
Jun 24, 1978
Season 1Episode 2455 min
The Dreadful Shichi-ri Messengers
Jul 1, 1978
Season 1Episode 2555 min
Heavens! Great Trouble in Edo
Jul 8, 1978
Season 1Episode 2655 min
The Drunken Man Who Was Promoted
Jul 15, 1978
Season 1Episode 2755 min
The Woman Who Challenged the Yagyu Family
Jul 22, 1978
Season 1Episode 2855 min
A Flower Blooms in the Dark
Jul 29, 1978
Season 1Episode 2955 min
The Goofiest Pickpocket in Edo
Aug 19, 1978
Season 1Episode 3055 min
The Misjudged Betrayer
Sep 9, 1978
Season 1Episode 3155 min
The Woman Who Disappeared from the Hunting Ground
Sep 16, 1978
Season 1Episode 3255 min
The Best Announcement of the Winner in Japan
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 (maybe he ate a lot of sugar) and really wants to wrestle him. Eventually Shin-san learns of the wrestling drama that is unfolding...
Sep 23, 1978
Season 1Episode 3355 min
A Daimyo's Famed Shiruko Restaurant
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...
Sep 30, 1978
Season 1Episode 3455 min
The Women Who Dance in a Tempest
Oct 7, 1978
Season 1Episode 3555 min
The Bride With an Explosive
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...
Oct 14, 1978
Season 1Episode 3655 min
The Decieving Mole Under a Womans Eye
Oct 21, 1978
Season 1Episode 3755 min
Feel Her Heart
Oct 28, 1978
Season 1Episode 3855 min
The Woman Who Challenged Her Master
Nov 4, 1978
Season 1Episode 3955 min
A Sweet Snare From Ryukyu
Nov 11, 1978
Season 1Episode 4055 min
Go! The Prodogy of the Commoners
Nov 18, 1978
Season 1Episode 4155 min
Hara Kiri! The Drunkard Magistrate
Dec 2, 1978
Season 1Episode 4255 min
A Hot Man and a Brazen Hussy
Dec 9, 1978
Season 1Episode 4355 min
The Shoguns Secret Ninja
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.
Dec 16, 1978
Season 1Episode 4455 min
Fresh Blood on the Bestowed Sword
Dec 23, 1978
Season 1Episode 4555 min
The Counterfeit Coins and the Candy Man
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 him (bastard we know you just want free candy) just when the guy's old friends force him to counterfeit again...
Dec 30, 1978
Season 1Episode 4655 min
A Grand New Years Gift
Jan 6, 1979
Season 1Episode 4755 min
The Female Doctor With a Fist
Edo is invigorated by an unusually aggressive and outspoken female doctor, Oshino, who physically beats her patients if they do not obey her.
Jan 13, 1979
Season 1Episode 4855 min
Hell in the Heavenly Bath
Jan 20, 1979
Season 1Episode 4955 min
Ikasu korosu wa fude Ippon!
Jan 27, 1979
Season 1Episode 5055 min
The Great Packed Lunch of a Woman
Feb 3, 1979
Season 1Episode 5155 min
The Bride of the Fish Market
Feb 10, 1979
Season 1Episode 5255 min
The Downfall of Ohoka Echizen No Kami
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...
Feb 17, 1979
Season 1Episode 5355 min
The Best Dry Sake For Mother and Son
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.
Feb 24, 1979
Season 1Episode 5455 min
The Female Doctor Who Loves Money
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.
Mar 3, 1979
Season 1Episode 5555 min
This Small Incident Occured Ten Years Ago
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.
Mar 10, 1979
Season 1Episode 5655 min
The Man Who Died in the Light Snowfalls in Spring
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.
Mar 17, 1979
Season 1Episode 5755 min
Eliminations of Black Sheep
Mar 24, 1979
Season 1Episode 5855 min
The Best Cherry Blossom Dance in Edo
Mar 31, 1979
Season 1Episode 5955 min
The Firemens Standard is the Firemens Heart and Soul
Apr 7, 1979
Season 1Episode 6055 min
Only the Sun Knew
Apr 14, 1979
Season 1Episode 6155 min
The Perished Love in a Spring Storm
Apr 21, 1979
Season 1Episode 6255 min
A Single Flower in the Dark
Apr 28, 1979
Season 1Episode 6355 min
The Fallen Flower in the Game of Chance
May 5, 1979
Season 1Episode 6455 min
Holding a Fire Standard For a Spear
May 12, 1979
Season 1Episode 6555 min
The Troublesome Tea Urn Trip
May 19, 1979
Season 1Episode 6655 min
Daruma Smiled on Joshu Road
May 26, 1979
Season 1Episode 6755 min
Commissioner Ohoka Committs Hara Kiri
Jun 2, 1979
Season 1Episode 6855 min
A Bogus Complaint
Jun 9, 1979
Season 1Episode 6955 min
Very Proud of the Celebrated Sword
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.
Jun 16, 1979
Season 1Episode 7055 min
A Loach Pot Rather Than a Domain
Jun 23, 1979
Season 1Episode 7155 min
Revenge Colored With Safflowers
Jun 30, 1979
Season 1Episode 7255 min
The Best Godfather in Japan
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.
Jul 7, 1979
Season 1Episode 7355 min
A Man Passionate About the Snow on Mount Fuji
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.
Jul 14, 1979
Season 1Episode 7455 min
Kick the Edo Illness Out
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).
Jul 21, 1979
Season 1Episode 7555 min
Gorozaemon Kano's Disappearance
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.
Aug 11, 1979
Season 1Episode 7655 min
Suspicion Begets Idle Fears
A lord lets 3 master ghost actresses into his house as maids, somehow doesn't connect this with supernatural happenings in his house.
Aug 18, 1979
Season 1Episode 7755 min
The Bridge that Came from Kishu
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.
Aug 25, 1979
Season 1Episode 7855 min
A Man Hunting the Whole Country
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.
Sep 8, 1979
Season 1Episode 7955 min
Peerless! The Taste of Momma
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.
Sep 15, 1979
Season 1Episode 8055 min
The Direct Retainers of the Shogun Run Wild
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.
Sep 22, 1979
Season 1Episode 8155 min
Heroes in the Darkness
Sep 29, 1979
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