Musashibo Benkei

📊 Series Specifications

Network NHK
Episode Runtime ~46 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 32
Original Language JA
Creator Tsuneo Tomita

Musashibo Benkei (1986)

Created by Tsuneo Tomita
⭐ Not Rated Yet 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 32 Episodes 🏷️ Drama 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

After being carried in his mother’s womb for three years, Benkei is born with long hair and teeth and the body of a small child. It is said that he immediately laughed and commented on the brightness of the outside world, leading local people in his native Kii (modern Wakayama) to proclaim that he is a devil. Abandoned on a mountainside, he is adopted by Dainagon, a Kyoto resident who rears him until age seven when he leaves to become a monk. Thrown out of the monastery for his violent behavior, Benkei wanders Japan in search of enlightenment, though only trouble seems to find him. After accidentally causing a temple to burn down, he decides to begin a quest to defeat 1,000 of the hated Heike samurai in battle and donate their swords to a temple. Obtaining the first 999 swords proves relatively easy but the final weapon belongs to Yoshitsune, a young boy whose appearance belies his great skill as a warrior.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Ferocious Monk of Love

First episode.

E2 The Proud Taira clan
E3 Spring evening at Gojo Bridge
E4 The boy from Kurama
E5 Tokiwa and Shizuka
E6 A Turbulent Dance of Love and Hate
E7 To the Oshu
E8 Northern king
E9 Oniwaka's lullaby
E10 Crying Hokuro
E11 Gather the Genji
E12 Meeting at Kisegawa river
E13 Half brother
E14 Trouble of a truce bearer
E15 Episode 15
E16 Episode 16
E17 Episode 17
E18 Episode 18
E19 Episode 19
E20 Episode 20
E21 Episode 21
E22 Episode 22
E23 Episode 23
E24 Episode 24
E25 Episode 25
E26 Episode 26
E27 Episode 27
E28 Episode 28
E29 Episode 29
E30 Episode 30
E31 Episode 31
E32 Episode 32