The best Japanese jidaigeki TV series
The top 3 according to 20 votes from people: Mito Kōmon · Onihei Hankachō · Tōyama no Kin-san. (Updated Dec 11, 2023.)
Mito Kōmon, Hissatsu Shigotonin, Abarenbō Shōgun, Onihei Hankachō: the period TV dramas that top the reader polls of Mynavi News and Rankingoo.
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Top 12
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1
Mito Kōmon
The retired lord and his two retainers travel righting wrongs; a decades-long classic.
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2
Onihei Hankachō
Kichiemon Nakamura as Heizō Hasegawa hunting thieves, from Shōtarō Ikenami's novels.
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3
Tōyama no Kin-san
The magistrate who reveals his cherry-blossom tattoo in court.
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4
JIN
Takao Ōsawa's modern brain surgeon is thrown back to Edo at the end of the shogunate.
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5
Ōoku (Fuji TV)
Power struggles among the women of the shogun's inner palace.
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6
Lone Wolf and Cub
Kinnosuke Yorozuya's Ogami Ittō roams as an assassin with his son in a baby cart.
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7
Kogarashi Monjirō
Atsuo Nakamura's wandering gambler who wants nothing to do with anyone.
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8
Hissatsu series (Hissatsu Shigotonin)
Hired assassins who settle grudges the law can't.
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9
Abarenbō Shōgun
Ken Matsudaira's shogun Yoshimune goes undercover as a poor samurai to cut down villains.
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10
Zenigata Heiji
The constable who catches crooks by throwing coins; Hashizō Ōkawa's version ran for years.
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11
Yamamoto Shūgorō Ninjō Jidaigeki
Shūgorō Yamamoto's short stories adapted one per episode.
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12
Three Outlaw Samurai
Three ronin fight for peasants; a pioneer of TV jidaigeki.
Candidates
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13
Ōoka Echizen
Gō Katō as the wise magistrate Ōoka Tadasuke.
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14
Edo wo Kiru
Popular series starring Teruhiko Saigō as Tōyama Kinshirō.
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鬼平は吉右衛門版が一番。エンディングのジプシー・キングスも最高