Genroku Ryoran

📊 Series Specifications

Network NHK
Episode Runtime ~50 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 49
Original Language JA

Genroku Ryoran (1999)

⭐ 3.9 / 5 (4 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 49 Episodes 🏷️ Drama 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

The 38th NHK Taiga Drama is Genroku Ryoran. The "Forty-seven Loyal Samurai" is one of the most enduring and best loved stories of Japan's history. Generations have grown up hearing the stirring tale of Oishi Kuranosuke, chief councillor of the Ako clan who leads his men through suffering and hardship to ultimately avenge their lord after he is unjustly forced to commit harakiri. NHK's 38th Taiga Drama "Genroku Ryoran" is the ambitious remake of this classic epic and boasts a cast that reads like a Who's Who in Japanese entertainment.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Minister-in-Training
E2 5th Shogun Tsunayoshi
E3 Clan Ruin
E4 Return to Ako
E5 Praying for an Heir
E6 Bloodshed in the Castle
E7 The Wedding
E8 Marriage Offer
E9 Blind Ambition
E10 Aguri Times Three
E11 Adopted Heirs
E12 Castle Takeover
E13 Kidnapped
E14 Daimyo Firefighter
E15 The Baby Furor
E16 The Viper and the Leech
E17 Assassination Attempt
E18 Envoy Host
E19 The Pine Corridor Incident
E20 Death Sentence
E21 Great Conference
E22 Blood Oath
E23 Castle Surrender
E24 Episode 24
E25 Yamashina Quietude
E26 Edo Radicals
E27 Kuranosuke Goes to Edo
E28 Reunion
E29 Defection
E30 Death Poem
E31 Master Uki
E32 Okaru
E33 Lady Ichii
E34 Kuranosuke is Removed
E35 Successors
E36 The Decision
E37 Strike Against the Shogunate
E38 Test of Loyalty
E39 Dawn of Farewell
E40 Journey to Edo
E41 Floor Plans
E42 Causalties
E43 Kira's Tea Party
E44 At Last, the Strike
E45 Setback
E46 The Day of the Attack
E47 The Attack
E48 In Custody
E49 Paragons of Loyalty