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Season 1

The Unfettered Shogun Season 1

January. 07,1978

8.4

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Set in the 18th century, the show follows the Shogun Yoshimune, who likes to disguise himself as a low-ranking samurai and go into his capital of Edo to see the life of the common man, as well as to seek out and punish evildoers who would hurt his citizens. He is aided by Magistrate Oo'oka and a vivacious fireman, Tatsugoro, as well as a rotating cast of other recurring characters. Along with Zenigata Heiji and Mito Kōmon, it ranks among the longest-running series in the jidaigeki genre. Like so many other jidaigeki, it falls in the category of kanzen-chōaku, loosely, "rewarding good and punishing evil."

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The Unfettered Shogun Season 1 Full Episode Guide

Episode 207 - Episode 207

First Aired: May. 01,1982

Episode 206 - Episode 206

First Aired: April. 24,1982

Episode 205 - Episode 205

First Aired: April. 17,1982

Episode 204 - Episode 204

First Aired: April. 10,1982

Episode 203 - Episode 203

First Aired: March. 27,1982

Episode 202 - Episode 202

First Aired: March. 20,1982

Episode 201 - Episode 201

First Aired: March. 13,1982

Episode 200 - Episode 200

First Aired: March. 06,1982

Episode 199 - Episode 199

First Aired: February. 27,1982

Episode 198 - Episode 198

First Aired: February. 20,1982

Episode 197 - Episode 197

First Aired: February. 13,1982

Episode 196 - Episode 196

First Aired: February. 06,1982

Episode 195 - Episode 195

First Aired: January. 30,1982

Episode 194 - Episode 194

First Aired: January. 23,1982

Episode 193 - Episode 193

First Aired: January. 16,1982

Episode 192 - Episode 192

First Aired: January. 09,1982

Episode 191 - Episode 191

First Aired: December. 26,1981

Episode 190 - Episode 190

First Aired: December. 19,1981

Episode 189 - Episode 189

First Aired: December. 12,1981

Episode 188 - Episode 188

First Aired: December. 05,1981

Episode 187 - Episode 187

First Aired: November. 28,1981

Episode 186 - Episode 186

First Aired: November. 21,1981

Episode 185 - Episode 185

First Aired: November. 14,1981

Episode 184 - Episode 184

First Aired: November. 07,1981

Episode 183 - Episode 183

First Aired: October. 31,1981

Episode 182 - Episode 182

First Aired: October. 24,1981

Episode 181 - Episode 181

First Aired: October. 17,1981

Episode 180 - Episode 180

First Aired: October. 10,1981

Episode 179 - Episode 179

First Aired: October. 03,1981

Episode 178 - Episode 178

First Aired: September. 26,1981

Episode 177 - Episode 177

First Aired: September. 19,1981

Episode 176 - Episode 176

First Aired: September. 12,1981

Episode 175 - Episode 175

First Aired: September. 05,1981

Episode 174 - Episode 174

First Aired: August. 29,1981

Episode 173 - Episode 173

First Aired: August. 22,1981

Episode 172 - Episode 172

First Aired: August. 15,1981

Episode 171 - Episode 171

First Aired: August. 08,1981

Episode 170 - Episode 170

First Aired: August. 01,1981

Episode 169 - Episode 169

First Aired: July. 18,1981

Episode 168 - Episode 168

First Aired: July. 11,1981

Episode 167 - Episode 167

First Aired: July. 04,1981

Episode 166 - Episode 166

First Aired: June. 27,1981

Episode 165 - Episode 165

First Aired: June. 20,1981

Episode 164 - Episode 164

First Aired: June. 13,1981

Episode 163 - Episode 163

First Aired: June. 06,1981

Episode 162 - Episode 162

First Aired: May. 30,1981

Episode 161 - Episode 161

First Aired: May. 23,1981

Episode 160 - Episode 160

First Aired: May. 16,1981

Episode 159 - Episode 159

First Aired: May. 09,1981

Episode 158 - Episode 158

First Aired: May. 02,1981

Episode 157 - Episode 157

First Aired: April. 25,1981

Episode 156 - Episode 156

First Aired: April. 18,1981

Episode 155 - Episode 155

First Aired: April. 11,1981

Episode 154 - Episode 154

First Aired: March. 28,1981

Episode 153 - Episode 153

First Aired: March. 21,1981

Episode 152 - Episode 152

First Aired: March. 14,1981

Episode 151 - Episode 151

First Aired: March. 07,1981

Episode 150 - Episode 150

First Aired: February. 28,1981

Episode 149 - Episode 149

First Aired: February. 21,1981

Episode 148 - Episode 148

First Aired: February. 14,1981

Episode 147 - Episode 147

First Aired: February. 07,1981

Episode 146 - Episode 146

First Aired: January. 31,1981

Episode 145 - Episode 145

First Aired: January. 24,1981

Episode 144 - Episode 144

First Aired: January. 17,1981

Episode 143 - Episode 143

First Aired: January. 10,1981

Shin-san accidentally gets involved with two low-class thieving morons, to Tatsugoro's horror. Tatsugoro finally manages to get rid of them, and one of them is promptly killed by evil ninjas for having seen something he should not have. Yoshimune learns they were raising a bunch of orphans in an awful shack with their scammed money, and decides he must avenge the dead criminal.

Episode 142 - Episode 142

First Aired: December. 27,1980

Episode 141 - Episode 141

First Aired: December. 20,1980

Episode 140 - Episode 140

First Aired: December. 06,1980

Episode 139 - Episode 139

First Aired: November. 29,1980

Episode 138 - Episode 138

First Aired: November. 22,1980

Episode 137 - Episode 137

First Aired: November. 15,1980

Episode 136 - Episode 136

First Aired: November. 08,1980

Episode 135 - Episode 135

First Aired: November. 01,1980

Episode 134 - Episode 134

First Aired: October. 25,1980

Episode 133 - Episode 133

First Aired: October. 18,1980

Episode 132 - Episode 132

First Aired: October. 11,1980

Episode 131 - Episode 131

First Aired: October. 04,1980

Episode 130 - Episode 130

First Aired: September. 27,1980

Episode 129 - Episode 129

First Aired: September. 13,1980

Episode 128 - Episode 128

First Aired: September. 06,1980

Episode 127 - Episode 127

First Aired: August. 30,1980

Episode 126 - Episode 126

First Aired: August. 23,1980

Episode 125 - Episode 125

First Aired: August. 16,1980

Episode 124 - Episode 124

First Aired: August. 09,1980

Episode 123 - Episode 123

First Aired: August. 02,1980

Episode 122 - Episode 122

First Aired: July. 26,1980

Episode 121 - Episode 121

First Aired: July. 19,1980

Episode 120 - Episode 120

First Aired: July. 12,1980

Episode 119 - Episode 119

First Aired: July. 05,1980

Episode 118 - Episode 118

First Aired: June. 28,1980

Episode 117 - Episode 117

First Aired: June. 21,1980

Episode 116 - Episode 116

First Aired: June. 14,1980

Episode 115 - Episode 115

First Aired: June. 07,1980

Episode 114 - Episode 114

First Aired: May. 31,1980

Episode 113 - Episode 113

First Aired: May. 24,1980

Episode 112 - Episode 112

First Aired: May. 17,1980

Episode 111 - Episode 111

First Aired: May. 10,1980

Episode 110 - Episode 110

First Aired: May. 03,1980

Episode 109 - Episode 109

First Aired: April. 26,1980

Episode 108 - Episode 108

First Aired: April. 19,1980

Episode 107 - Episode 107

First Aired: April. 12,1980

Episode 106 - Episode 106

First Aired: April. 05,1980

Episode 105 - Episode 105

First Aired: March. 29,1980

Episode 104 - Episode 104

First Aired: March. 22,1980

Episode 103 - Episode 103

First Aired: March. 08,1980

Episode 102 - Episode 102

First Aired: March. 01,1980

Episode 101 - Episode 101

First Aired: February. 23,1980

Episode 100 - Episode 100

First Aired: February. 16,1980

Episode 99 - Episode 99

First Aired: February. 09,1980

Episode 98 - Episode 98

First Aired: February. 02,1980

Episode 97 - Episode 97

First Aired: January. 26,1980

Episode 96 - Episode 96

First Aired: January. 19,1980

Episode 95 - Episode 95

First Aired: January. 12,1980

Episode 94 - Episode 94

First Aired: January. 05,1980

Episode 93 - Episode 93

First Aired: December. 29,1979

Episode 92 - Cheers! Quack Doctor

First Aired: December. 22,1979

Episode 91 - Duel! In the Stormy Castle

First Aired: December. 15,1979

Episode 90 - Beast Battle! Master Tatsugoro

First Aired: December. 08,1979

Episode 89 - Embarrased To Recieve Flowers in Congratulation

First Aired: December. 01,1979

Episode 88 - Burn! Even If You Must Die

First Aired: November. 24,1979

Episode 87 - Bullet Aiming At 8 Million Koku

First Aired: November. 17,1979

Episode 86 - The Shogun Permitted a Thief

First Aired: November. 10,1979

Episode 85 - Mount Fuji Saw The Wild Spear

First Aired: November. 03,1979

Episode 84 - O-sai Flies!

First Aired: October. 27,1979

Episode 83 - Thief Targeting the Nation

First Aired: October. 20,1979

Episode 82 - Angelic Neighborhood Bully

First Aired: October. 13,1979

Episode 81 - Heroes in the Darkness

First Aired: September. 29,1979

Episode 80 - The Direct Retainers of the Shogun Run Wild

First Aired: September. 22,1979

Hatamotos, a domain, a runaway killer samurai from the domain, the firemen, and jii for some reason, all end up in a gigantic free for all fight.

Episode 79 - Peerless! The Taste of Momma

First Aired: September. 15,1979

Matsumae domain officials and the store Ebisu-ya are conspiring to give predatory loans to alcohol shops. Lady merchant Omasa from Osaka wants to get a better deal, and her son unfortunately took the debt from his main sake supplier, so now she needs to get money to save both their skins.

Episode 78 - A Man Hunting the Whole Country

First Aired: September. 08,1979

The Ogobanshu (kind of like a guild of hatamotos) want to hunt, but in setting the borders of the hunting area they recklessly steal the corner of a VERY sensitive farmer's farm.

Episode 77 - The Bride That Came From Kishu

First Aired: August. 25,1979

Kikue, the daughter of a potter. comes to Edo and meets her old friend Shin-san, who she recognizes as the Shogun. She came to marry Kano Gorozaemon, who proposed to her when she was eight (??!) but Kano backed out.

Episode 76 - Suspicion Begets Idle Fears

First Aired: August. 18,1979

A lord lets 3 master ghost actresses into his house as maids, somehow doesn't connect this with supernatural happenings in his house.

Episode 75 - Gorozaemon Kano's Disappearance

First Aired: August. 11,1979

Kano Gorozaemon, who is practically Yoshimune's adoptive father, goes out into Edo to get a surprise present for the Shogun, and is kidnapped by a nutter who wants to frame him for murder to steal his job.

Episode 74 - Kick the Edo Illness Out!

First Aired: July. 21,1979

A mysterious illness (beriberi) becomes common and Yoshimune calls his doctor to find out what the cause is. His doctor says only his own special blend of medicine (very expensive) can cure it. Oshino, the female doctor with a fist, however, believes the solution is more simple (and involves punching people).

Episode 73 - A Man Passionate About the Snow on Mount Fuji

First Aired: July. 14,1979

A kind but untalented kitchen-supervisor samurai is assigned to accompany his domain's gift to the Shogun: big blocks of ice. Shin-san, tramping around Shinjuku, accidentally discovers this delivery and starts accompanying it too, and discovers a rival domain is trying to kill the ice to humiliate the first domain.

Episode 72 - Revenge Colored with Safflowers

First Aired: July. 07,1979

A pregnant safflower farmer's husband is run over by the local lord's horse. She's lured to the daikan's office to get compensated but is raped and turned into the lord's concubine instead. She schemes to have herself murdered so Ooka Echizen will enter the manor and discover these great crimes.

Episode 71 - The Best Godfather in Japan

First Aired: June. 30,1979

Episode 70 - A Loach Pot Rather Than A Domain

First Aired: June. 23,1979

Episode 69 - Very Proud of the Celebrated Sword

First Aired: June. 16,1979

An unbalanced ronin wants to become the sword teacher to a daimyo, so he can get enough money to buy back his really sexy sword from the pawn shop. However, a competitor attacks him, crippling the ronin's hand. Shin-san is really mad about this, even though the ronin attacked him earlier.

Episode 68 - A Bogus Complaint

First Aired: June. 09,1979

Episode 67 - Commissioner Ooka Committs Hara-Kiri!

First Aired: June. 02,1979

Episode 66 - Daruma Smiled on Joshu Road

First Aired: May. 26,1979

Episode 65 - The Troublesome Tea Urn Trip

First Aired: May. 19,1979

Episode 64 - Holding a Fire Standard for a Spear

First Aired: May. 12,1979

Episode 63 - The Fallen Flower in the Game of Chance

First Aired: May. 05,1979

Episode 62 - A Single Flower in the Dark

First Aired: April. 28,1979

Episode 61 - The Perished Love in a Spring Storm

First Aired: April. 21,1979

Episode 60 - Only the Sun Knew

First Aired: April. 14,1979

Episode 59 - The Firemen's Standard is the Firemen's Heart and Soul

First Aired: April. 07,1979

Episode 58 - The Best Cherry Blossom Dance in Edo

First Aired: March. 31,1979

Episode 57 - Eliminations of Black Sheep

First Aired: March. 24,1979

Episode 56 - The Man Who Died in the Light Snowfalls in Spring

First Aired: March. 17,1979

Ryuko's friend is killed by a rice wholesaler. Shin-san investigates this and discovers a whole sordid rice-based drama, including collective punishment, famine, and assassination.

Episode 55 - This Small Incident Occured Ten Years Ago

First Aired: March. 10,1979

Shoheiko, the official Shogunate college, has an admissions scandal where the bureaucrats turn out to have been accepting bribes for admissions. Yoshimune suggests opening it to commoners and calls up some obscure scholars; the vicious bureaucrats attack and kill one. Shin-san absolutely loses his mind, but Tatsugoro is there to give him a helping hand.

Episode 54 - The Female Doctor Who Loves Money

First Aired: March. 03,1979

Oshino, the female doctor with a fist, is in charge of a temple that gives free medical service to orphans, but it is reputed that she is stealing all the money instead.

Episode 53 - The Best Dry Sake for Mother and Son

First Aired: February. 24,1979

Clannish Edoite sake sellers turn against a travelling Osakan female sake seller to force her out of the market; only her long-lost son, an Edoite sake seller, can save her.

Episode 52 - The Downfall of Ooka Echizen No Kami

First Aired: February. 17,1979

A bad gang leader kidnaps Tadasuke's wife (who never appeared before or since), as she went to the shrine to pray for a baby. Tadasuke decides that justice outweighs his bride and prepares to prosecute the gang leader anyway, so Shin-san lets the prisoner go secretly to try and follow him to Tadasuke's bride...

Episode 51 - The Bride of the Fish Market

First Aired: February. 10,1979

Episode 50 - The Great Packed Lunch of a Woman

First Aired: February. 03,1979

Episode 49 - The Pen is Mightier Than The Sword

First Aired: January. 27,1979

Episode 48 - Hell in the Heavenly Bath

First Aired: January. 20,1979

Episode 47 - The Female Doctor with a Fist

First Aired: January. 13,1979

Edo is invigorated by an unusually aggressive and outspoken female doctor, Oshino, who physically beats her patients if they do not obey her.

Episode 46 - A Grand New Year's Gift

First Aired: January. 06,1979

Episode 45 - The Counterfeit Coins and the Candy Man

First Aired: December. 30,1978

A man makes little pretty sugar candies for kids and tells funny stories. He used to be a counterfeiter because of his great manual dexterity, but vowed to turn his life around. Shin-san becomes "interested" in him (bastard we know you just want free candy) just when the guy's old friends force him to counterfeit again...

Episode 44 - Fresh Blood on the Bestowed Sword

First Aired: December. 23,1978

Episode 43 - The Shogun's Secret Ninja

First Aired: December. 16,1978

Female ninja Osono's dad Seiemon comes to town. He is now a cotton-farming country samurai. Needs dried sardines for fertilizer. The hatamoto of sardineland is driving the fishermens' prices down so all the farmers secretly sell to Seiemon. The merchant tries to assassinate Seiemon and fails, since Seiemon is a ninja. Seiemon stays at the firehouse and plans to secretly assassinate the criminals, then kill himself, because he's depressed.

Episode 42 - A Hot Man and a Brazen Hussy

First Aired: December. 09,1978

Episode 41 - Hara-Kiri! The Drunkard Magistrate

First Aired: December. 02,1978

Episode 40 - Go! The Prodogy of the Commoners

First Aired: November. 18,1978

Episode 39 - A Sweet Snare from RyuKyu

First Aired: November. 11,1978

Episode 38 - The Woman Who Challenged Her Master

First Aired: November. 04,1978

Episode 37 - Feel Her Heart

First Aired: October. 28,1978

Episode 36 - The Deceiving Mole Under a Woman's Eye

First Aired: October. 21,1978

Episode 35 - The Bride with an Explosive

First Aired: October. 14,1978

A land reclamation project is taking place largely with Shogunate funds, carried out by contract with 2 companies (which are marrying their kids together as the ultimate symbol of the contract). One of the companies invents a bomb with a long fuse, to blow up a mountainous area in the reclamation zone. The other company decides to assassinate the first company, and steals the bomb...

Episode 34 - The Women Who Dance in a Tempest

First Aired: October. 07,1978

Episode 33 - A Daimyo's Famed Shiruko Restaurant

First Aired: September. 30,1978

A certain han ruled by a child lord is having money trouble, so one of the han's samurai starts a sweet bean soup restaurant to try and raise funds. The samurai has some trouble getting customers...

Episode 32 - The Best Announcement of the Winner in Japan

First Aired: September. 23,1978

Ryuko and Isonokaze were sumo wrestlers for a clan who tried to make them throw a match. Ryuko hides out at the fire house and meets Shin-san, who is very excitable (maybe he ate a lot of sugar) and really wants to wrestle him. Eventually Shin-san learns of the wrestling drama that is unfolding...

Episode 31 - The Woman Who Disappeared from the Hunting Ground

First Aired: September. 16,1978

Episode 30 - The Misjudged Betrayer

First Aired: September. 09,1978

Episode 29 - The Goofiest Pickpocket in Edo

First Aired: August. 19,1978

Episode 28 - A Flower Blooms in the Dark

First Aired: July. 29,1978

Episode 27 - The Woman Who Challenged the Yagyu Family

First Aired: July. 22,1978

Episode 26 - The Drunken Man Who was Promoted

First Aired: July. 15,1978

Episode 25 - Heaven's! Great Trouble in Edo

First Aired: July. 08,1978

Episode 24 - The Dreadful Schichi-ri Messengers

First Aired: July. 01,1978

Episode 23 - Rage of the Fishmonger

First Aired: June. 24,1978

Episode 22 - Friendships Support the World

First Aired: June. 17,1978

Episode 21 - Fireman's Standard was Watching

First Aired: June. 03,1978

Episode 20 - Iris and Sympathy

First Aired: May. 27,1978

Episode 19 - A Ballad of a Fireman

First Aired: May. 20,1978

Tatsugoro's family is indebted to a samurai family, so Tatsugoro gives the samurai family his very best fireman to adopt, since the samurai have no heir of their own. The other samurai do not like him.

Episode 18 - The Beat of a Taiko Drum in Edo

First Aired: May. 13,1978

Yoshimune really wants to attend a festival in Edo, but he has important business to attend to in the palace. Jii says he can go out as long as he is back by 4 PM. This doesn't seem likely, since Yoshimune gets involved in a big fistfight and village drama.

Episode 17 - Love and the Guardian Deity

First Aired: May. 06,1978

Satsuma domain bully a store that is in their debt by trying to steal the storekeeper's girlfriend, and by framing them for theft. Only a man of stone can save Tamba-ya from destruction!

Episode 16 - Showdown at Beautiful Yoshiwara

First Aired: April. 29,1978

Episode 15 - The Quack Who Calls Forth Spring

First Aired: April. 22,1978

Even though he has been made surgeon-general, nobody trusts Ogawa Shosen or Yoshimune's city hospital. Yoshimune decides to get himself admitted as Shin-san to investigate from within.

Episode 14 - The Golden Crow Charms

First Aired: April. 15,1978

Fireman Genzo wins the lottery, but is then reported to the police for having a forged ticket.

Episode 13 - The Perilous Souvenir Gift

First Aired: April. 08,1978

Yoshimune's old friends from Kishu, Sakichi and Onatsu of the lumber store, are leaving town, so Yoshimune comes to bring them a present. He ends up getting in the way of a drug bust and is mistaken for a drug dealer.

Episode 12 - The Amazing Kishu Woman

First Aired: April. 01,1978

Yoshimune's old friend from Kishu, a female lumberjack, comes to Edo to engage in lumber trade, but gets in trouble.

Episode 11 - The Finest Kiyari Song

First Aired: March. 25,1978

Episode 10 - The Blossoming Meyasubako

First Aired: March. 18,1978

Episode 9 - The Chivalrous Thief

First Aired: March. 11,1978

Episode 8 - The Befouled Truncheon

First Aired: March. 04,1978

Episode 7 - The Man of River Styx

First Aired: February. 25,1978

Episode 6 - The Splendid Potato Samurai

First Aired: February. 11,1978

Episode 5 - Spring in the O'oku

First Aired: February. 04,1978

Episode 4 - Mother From Long Past

First Aired: January. 28,1978

A hatamoto's spoiled brat daughter is in the habit of thieving and blaming it on commoners. Meanwhile, Yoshimune becomes preternaturally obsessed with a den-den taiko (a type of child's toy).

Episode 3 - The First Fireman Banner

First Aired: January. 21,1978

Hatamoto firemen are causing a nuisance and thieving in town, so fiery Tatsugoro and his gang of construction workers aim to take them down.

Episode 2 - The Remarkable Charlatan

First Aired: January. 14,1978

Ogyu Shosen is called a quack doctor, but Yoshimune thinks he should be made surgeon-general.

Episode 1 - The Star of Edo

First Aired: January. 07,1978

Roughhousing daimyo Tokugawa Yoshimune of Kishu reluctantly becomes the Shogun so that he may bring prosperity to everyone in the country. On his procession to Edo Palace, he runs into his old friend Tatsugoro, and a little girl begging for a pardon for her father on death row. Yoshimune decides to sneak out of Edo Palace and do a little detective work.