Abarenbo Shogun Seas

Description: Tokugawa Yoshimune is the 8th Shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate He continues to have bad people creating havoc within his city of Megumi With the help of his close associates Lord Tokugawa is allowed to roam throughout his city disguised as Tokuda Shinnosuke an average Joe living within Megumi By mixing in with the population Shin san as everyone in the city calls him is able to research issues first hand His help includes oniwaban ninjas and the captain of the Megumi fire company Yoshimune uses the fire company as his base while he s away from Himeji Castle The captain of the company and the oniwaban know his identity but everyone else in the city is unaware that he is the Shogun Once Yoshimune solves the crimes he confronts them Just about every time the bad people whip out their samurai swords in an attempt to kill Yoshimune although most of the time they still don t know who he REALLY is Most of the time Yoshimume flips his samurai sword so that the dull side is out This way he can still take his opponents down without making sashimi out of them Very rarely will he actually hit people with the sharp part of the blade They have to be some really mean guys for Yoshimune to go that far The show was frequently topical and touched on many themes of present day life The most common subject was political corruption Drugs unequal power relationships poverty urbanization the generation gap inflation and the tension between Japanese and foreign knowledge were recurring themes Abarenbo Shogun aired from 1978 thru 2002 In 2003 TV Asahi aired a final episode ending Matsudaira Ken s 25 year reign

Country:  Japanese

Released: 2001

Genre: Action Drama Historical

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