Abarenbō Shōgun
| Abarenbō Shōgun | |
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Firefighters' lanterns from the Megumi
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| Also known as | 暴れん坊将軍 |
| Starring | Ken Matsudaira, Tadashi Yokouchi, Saburō Kitajima |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| No. of episodes | 831 |
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| Running time | 45 Minutes |
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| Original network | TV Asahi |
| Original release | January 7, 1978 – December 29, 2008 |
Abarenbō Shōgun (暴れん坊将軍?) (direct translation: Rogue General) is a Japanese television program on the TV Asahi network. Set in the eighteenth century, it showed fictitious events in the life of Yoshimune, the eighth Tokugawa shogun. The program started in 1978 under the title Yoshimune Hyōbanki: Abarenbō Shōgun (Chronicle in Praise of Yoshimune: The Bold Shogun) who went after rogue Councillors and Daimyo who were abusing their power. After a few seasons, they shortened the first two words and ran for two decades under the shorter title until the series ended in 2003; a two-hour special aired in 2004, and then restarted from Oct. 13, 2013 at 7:00PM (Japan time) and still runs today. The earliest scripts occasionally wove stories around historic events such as the establishment of firefighting companies of commoners in Edo, but eventually the series adopted a routine of strictly fiction.
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."
Goyō toritsugi
Fire captain
Women of Megumi
Firemen
Oniwabanshū (ninja)
Narrator
Tokugawa Muneharu (徳川宗春)
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