Genre: | Jidaigeki |
Runtime: | 45 minutes (per episode) |
Country: | Japan |
Language: | Japanese |
Num Episodes: | 15 |
Company: | Fuji TV, Shochiku |
Network: | Fuji TV |
Director: | Eiichi Kudo Kōsei Saitō |
Starring: | Tsutomu Yamazaki Atsuo Nakamura Renji Ishibashi Shigeru Kōyama Ken Nishida Tetsurō Tamba Sei Hiraizumi |
Narrated: | Masane Tsukayama |
Theme Music Composer: | Shigeru Umebayashi |
Endtheme: | Shigeru Umebayashi |
is a Japanese television jidaigeki or period drama that was broadcast in prime-time in 1995 on Fuji TV.[1] It is based on Shōtarō Ikenami's novel of the same title.[2] It stars Tsutomu Yamazaki.[3]
In the Kyōhō period, there was a group of bandits called Kumokiri from the people of Edo.[4] Tokugawa shogunate appoints Abe Shikibu a head post of the Hitsuke Tōzoku Aratamegata to arrest Kumokiri clan.[5] [6]