Abarenbo Shogun
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."
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207 episodes. Playback and audio depend on the available source.
S1:E1 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E2 The Remarkable Charlatan
Ogyu Shosen is called a quack doctor, but Yoshimune thinks he should be made surgeon-general.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E3 The First Fireman 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E4 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).
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E5 Spring in the O'oku
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E6 The Splendid Potato Samurai
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E7 The Man of River Styx
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E8 The Befouled Truncheon
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E9 The Chivalrous Thief
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E10 The Blossoming Meyasubako
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E11 The Finest Kiyari Song
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E12 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E13 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E14 The Golden Crow Charms
Fireman Genzo wins the lottery, but is then reported to the police for having a forged ticket.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E15 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E16 Showdown at Beautiful Yoshiwara
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E17 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!
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E18 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E19 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E20 Iris and Sympathy
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E21 Fireman's Standard was Watching
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E22 Friendships Support the World
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E23 Rage of the Fishmonger
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E24 The Dreadful Shichi-ri Messengers
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E25 Heavens! Great Trouble in Edo
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E26 The Drunken Man Who was Promoted
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E27 The Woman Who Challenged the Yagyu Family
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E28 A Flower Blooms in the Dark
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E29 The Goofiest Pickpocket in Edo
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E30 The Misjudged Betrayer
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E31 The Woman Who Disappeared from the Hunting Ground
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E32 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 and really, really wants to wrestle him. Eventually Shin-san learns of the wrestling drama that is unfolding...
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E33 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...
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E34 The Women Who Dance in a Tempest
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E35 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...
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E36 The Deceiving Mole Under a Woman's Eye
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E37 Feel Her Heart
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E38 The Woman Who Challenged Her Master
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E39 A Sweet Snare from RyuKyu
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E40 Go! The Prodogy of the Commoners
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E41 Hara-Kiri! The Drunkard Magistrate
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E42 A Hot Man and a Brazen Hussy
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E43 The Shogun's 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E44 Fresh Blood on the Bestowed Sword
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E45 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 candy just when the guy's old friends force him to counterfeit again...
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E46 A Grand New Year's Gift
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E47 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E48 Hell in the Heavenly Bath
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E49 The Pen is Mightier Than The Sword
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E50 The Great Packed Lunch of a Woman
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E51 The Bride of the Fish Market
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E52 The Downfall of Ooka 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...
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E53 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E54 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E55 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E56 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E57 Eliminations of Black Sheep
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E58 The Best Cherry Blossom Dance in Edo
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E59 The Firemen's Standard is the Firemen's Heart and Soul
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E60 Only the Sun Knew
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E61 The Perished Love in a Spring Storm
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E62 A Single Flower in the Dark
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E63 The Fallen Flower in the Game of Chance
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E64 Holding a Fire Standard for a Spear
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E65 The Troublesome Tea Urn Trip
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E66 Daruma Smiled on Joshu Road
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E67 Commissioner Ooka Committs Hara-Kiri!
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E68 A Bogus Complaint
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E69 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E70 A Loach Pot Rather Than A Domain
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E71 The Best Godfather in Japan
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E72 Revenge Colored with Safflowers
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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E73 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E74 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).
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E75 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E76 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E77 The Bride 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E78 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E79 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E80 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E81 Heroes in the Darkness
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E82 Angelic Neighborhood Bully
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E83 Thief Targeting the Nation
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E84 O-sai Flies!
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E85 Mount Fuji Saw The Wild Spear
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E86 The Shogun Permitted a Thief
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E87 Bullet Aiming At 8 Million Koku
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E88 Burn! Even If You Must Die
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E89 Embarrased To Recieve Flowers in Congratulation
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E90 Beast Battle! Master Tatsugoro
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E91 Duel! In the Stormy Castle
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E92 Cheers! Quack Doctor
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E93 The Will of the Raging Samurai
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E94 The Lanterns of Early Spring and Noon Emerge
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E95 I Saw a Rainbow in the Sea of Flames
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E96 Get the Vermin Out of the Castle!
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E97 I Don't Need a Mother!
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E98 The Girl From the Wolf Village
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E99 A Dohyori of Fire!
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E100 The Fake Shogun
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E101 The Eight Million Koku Porter
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E102 The Collector Who Collected the Villain's Head
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E103 Catastrophe! We Shouldn't Have Gotten Out of the Way!
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E104 Japan's Most Wanted Bride
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E105 Stop! Uncontrolled Official Carriage
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E106 What is a Shogun?
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E107 Watch Out! A Female Spy
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E108 The Man Who Gives Orders to the Shogun!
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E109 Snacks Delight on a Sunny Day
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E110 Youth of Edo, Stand Up!
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E111 Love Blossoms in Ubasuteyama!
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E112 The Proud and Naive Samurai
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E113 The Man Who Didn't Stop
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E114 I Saw the Real One! The Hayabusa Brat
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E115 Beware of the Quick Bucks
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E116 The Man Who Died and Flourished
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E117 Courage in the Face of Injustice
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E118 Thief Training
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E119 The Fox Woman Cries, the Banner of Empathy
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E120 The Princess Take - Tears from a Wedding Procession
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E121 The Flourishing of the Female Bushido
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E122 The Sad Song of the South
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E123 The New Boss! - Osai, of the Fire Extinguisher
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E124 The One Who Stood Out After Being at Risk of Drowning
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E125 Floating Lanterns That Mark a New Beginning in a Man's Life
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E126 Love Sold for 20,000 Ryu
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E127 The Trap in the Wolf Village
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E128 Melancholy Ninja Love
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E129 Dad, You Used to Be Someone
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E130 My Childhood Friend is an Oku Woman
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E131 There was a Bullet in the Clam Chowder!
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E132 Run! The Shogun's Horse!
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E133 Listen! The Chronicles of the Old Man and the Young Master
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E134 A Silly Dance in an Oily Hell
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E135 Duel on the Steam of Hell
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E136 The Woman Who Bet on the Mountain of Fire
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E137 Edo's Female Chief
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E138 Hakone's Melancholic Drizzle
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E139 The One Who Flirted Was to Blame
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E140 The Wild Spear Everyone Fears
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E141 The Bandit Harusame's Mother
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E142 Munenryu Shintoism and Confucianism According to the Hayashi Clan
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E143 I Am the Most Unpleasant Person in the World
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.
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