# The best Japanese jidaigeki TV series

Mito Kōmon, Hissatsu Shigotonin, Abarenbō Shōgun, Onihei Hankachō: the period TV dramas that top the reader polls of Mynavi News and Rankingoo.

- 20 votes · 14 items
- Dec 11, 2023 · Misaki Okada
- https://even.best/en/l/4255/the-best-japanese-jidaigeki-tv-series

## Top 12

1. **Mito Kōmon** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — The retired lord and his two retainers travel righting wrongs; a decades-long classic.
2. **Onihei Hankachō** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Kichiemon Nakamura as Heizō Hasegawa hunting thieves, from Shōtarō Ikenami's novels.
3. **Tōyama no Kin-san** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The magistrate who reveals his cherry-blossom tattoo in court.
4. **JIN** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Takao Ōsawa's modern brain surgeon is thrown back to Edo at the end of the shogunate.
5. **Ōoku (Fuji TV)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Power struggles among the women of the shogun's inner palace.
6. **Lone Wolf and Cub** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Kinnosuke Yorozuya's Ogami Ittō roams as an assassin with his son in a baby cart.
7. **Kogarashi Monjirō** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Atsuo Nakamura's wandering gambler who wants nothing to do with anyone.
8. **Hissatsu series (Hissatsu Shigotonin)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Hired assassins who settle grudges the law can't.
9. **Abarenbō Shōgun** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Ken Matsudaira's shogun Yoshimune goes undercover as a poor samurai to cut down villains.
10. **Zenigata Heiji** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The constable who catches crooks by throwing coins; Hashizō Ōkawa's version ran for years.
11. **Yamamoto Shūgorō Ninjō Jidaigeki** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Shūgorō Yamamoto's short stories adapted one per episode.
12. **Three Outlaw Samurai** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Three ronin fight for peasants; a pioneer of TV jidaigeki.
13. **Ōoka Echizen** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Gō Katō as the wise magistrate Ōoka Tadasuke.
14. **Edo wo Kiru** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Popular series starring Teruhiko Saigō as Tōyama Kinshirō.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.