Monzaemon Chikamatsu is a middle-age dramatist of jōruri (form of puppet theater that preceded bunraku and kabuki), but he is in a slump. His wife left him and his mother is fed up with him. All he does now is drink. The man then meets a gambler named Mankichi and his life begins to change.
It is said that the Shinsengumi, led by Isami Kondo, delayed the start of the Meiji restoration by 1...
Saotome Mondonosuke, "Hatamoto" (direct servant of the shogun), a handsome man with a scar on his fo...
The protagonist, Naito Samon, was secretly ordered by Tokugawa Ieyoshi, the 12th Shogun of the Tokug...
Story takes place three years before the movie Ooku.
The story chronicles the life of Nagao Kagetora.
The Story is about three daughters of a "Hatamoto" during the end of the Edo period and the Meiji Re...
The chronicles of the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - May 17th, 1189). He was a late Heian an...
Based on the life of Hideyoshi Toyotomi (February 2, 1537 – September 18, 1598) a Sengoku period dai...
"Ako Roshi" is a group of 47 former retainers of Lord Asano. Lord Asano was forced to commit suicide...
A romance of a man who risked his life at sea on a Kitamae ship during the Edo period. Based on the ...
The chronicles of Sakamoto Ryoma, a pre-revolutionary who helped shape the face of modern Japan. In ...
Set in Japan several centuries back. It depicts the struggles of three historical warriors, Dosan Sa...
Set at the end of the 12th century when several wars for control of Japan disrupted a long era of pe...
Depicting Date clan’s internal strife that occurred during a peaceful Edo period governed by the 4th...
The 41st NHK Taiga Drama is Toshiie to Matsu. During the turbulent Warring States Era, one man's lif...
During the reign of the shogun, Iemitsu, an epidemic causes the population of men to greatly drop, l...
In the Kyoho era, Hayato, a shogun vassal commissioned as a traveling inspector by Tokugawa Yoshimun...
A wandering samurai, ronin, and ninja; meet by chance repeatedly and reluctantly team up to solve th...