[1] The protagonist of this jidaigeki is Matsudaira Zankurō, a low-ranking gokenin in the service of the Tokugawa shogunate.
He lives with his mother Masajo in the shogunal capital of Edo.
Other characters include his fiancée Matsudaira Sumi, old friend Nishio Denzaburō, and favorite geisha Otsuta.
Ken Watanabe played the lead,[2] with Kyōko Kishida as his mother and Mayumi Wakamura as the geisha (Tsutakichi in the series).
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