Edo o Kiru (江戸を斬る) or Slashing Edo was a popular jidaigeki on Japan's Tokyo Broadcasting System. During the decades from its 1973, premiere until 1994, [1] finale, 214 episodes aired. It lasted through eight series, with several casts and settings. It ran on Monday evenings in the 8:00–8:54 prime time slot, sponsored by National, and remains popular in reruns.
The first series featured popular actor Muga Takewaki, a co-star in the network's program Ōoka Echizen, which alternated with Edo o Kiru in the same time slot. He played Hoshina Masayuki, half-brother of shōgun Tokugawa Iemitsu, masquerading as Azusa Ukon in a good-over-evil drama set in Edo. Also on the cast was Matsuzaka Keiko, who continued in the next several versions of the show.
Versions two through six starred the popular actor/singer Saigō Teruhiko in the role of Tōyama Kagemoto, [2] or Tōyama no Kin-san, a samurai who lived among the commoners, to the point of having a huge sakura tattoo drawn on his shoulder, but later became chief administrator of Edo. In this version of the Kin-san story (which has been the subject of several other series), Kinshiro lived in the house of the woman who had been his nursemaid (played by Masumi Harukawa, later O-Sai of Abarenbō Shōgun), the proprietor of a fish-dealer. O-Yuki ( Keiko Matsuzaka), pretending to be her daughter, is actually a daughter of Tokugawa Nariaki, daimyō of the Mito domain, and eventually marries Kin-san. Wearing a purple cloth over her head and face, and wielding a sword in the Yagyū Shinkage-ryū manner, she works outside the law to bring justice to the wicked. At her right hand is an employee at the shop, Jirokichi ( kabuki actor Matsuyama Eitarō, 1942–1991). The former Robin Hood-style thief Nezumi Kozō, he became an undercover agent for the Kin-san/O-Yuki team. Morishige Hisaya (b. 1913) played Nariaki in special guest appearances.
Actress Judy Ongg assumed a supporting role as the female constable O-kyō in the fourth series.
A major cast change brought veteran jidaigeki actor Kōtarō Satomi to the lead role, again as Kin-san, for the seventh and eighth series.
References
- ^ "デジタル大辞泉プラス「江戸を斬る」の解説". Kotobank. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- ^ "黄金の「昭和テレビ時代劇」主役をオール直撃！（2）西郷輝彦 江戸を斬る」遠山金四郎". Asagei. 6 September 2017. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
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Edo o Kiru (江戸を斬る) or Slashing Edo was a popular jidaigeki on Japan's Tokyo Broadcasting System. During the decades from its 1973, premiere until 1994, [1] finale, 214 episodes aired. It lasted through eight series, with several casts and settings. It ran on Monday evenings in the 8:00–8:54 prime time slot, sponsored by National, and remains popular in reruns.
The first series featured popular actor Muga Takewaki, a co-star in the network's program Ōoka Echizen, which alternated with Edo o Kiru in the same time slot. He played Hoshina Masayuki, half-brother of shōgun Tokugawa Iemitsu, masquerading as Azusa Ukon in a good-over-evil drama set in Edo. Also on the cast was Matsuzaka Keiko, who continued in the next several versions of the show.
Versions two through six starred the popular actor/singer Saigō Teruhiko in the role of Tōyama Kagemoto, [2] or Tōyama no Kin-san, a samurai who lived among the commoners, to the point of having a huge sakura tattoo drawn on his shoulder, but later became chief administrator of Edo. In this version of the Kin-san story (which has been the subject of several other series), Kinshiro lived in the house of the woman who had been his nursemaid (played by Masumi Harukawa, later O-Sai of Abarenbō Shōgun), the proprietor of a fish-dealer. O-Yuki ( Keiko Matsuzaka), pretending to be her daughter, is actually a daughter of Tokugawa Nariaki, daimyō of the Mito domain, and eventually marries Kin-san. Wearing a purple cloth over her head and face, and wielding a sword in the Yagyū Shinkage-ryū manner, she works outside the law to bring justice to the wicked. At her right hand is an employee at the shop, Jirokichi ( kabuki actor Matsuyama Eitarō, 1942–1991). The former Robin Hood-style thief Nezumi Kozō, he became an undercover agent for the Kin-san/O-Yuki team. Morishige Hisaya (b. 1913) played Nariaki in special guest appearances.
Actress Judy Ongg assumed a supporting role as the female constable O-kyō in the fourth series.
A major cast change brought veteran jidaigeki actor Kōtarō Satomi to the lead role, again as Kin-san, for the seventh and eighth series.
References
- ^ "デジタル大辞泉プラス「江戸を斬る」の解説". Kotobank. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- ^ "黄金の「昭和テレビ時代劇」主役をオール直撃！（2）西郷輝彦 江戸を斬る」遠山金四郎". Asagei. 6 September 2017. Retrieved 17 June 2022.