or The Lethal Three is a group of seven television jidaigeki series broadcast by TV Asahi in Japan.
The title characters are three men who wander throughout Japan in the late Edo period.
In each episode they encounter antagonists, and in the final tachimawari (fight scene) kill them.
Yasaka Heishirō, nicknamed "Tono-sama" ("Lord") is a refined, disciplined rōnin played by Hideki Takahashi.
Kuji Shinnosuke, or "Sengoku," is also a ronin, or a spy for the Tokugawa shogunate, or a commoner, as suits the episode.
A native of the Satsuma Domain, Kuji practices the Jigen-ryū sword fighting style.
Nicknamed "Tako" ("octopus"), he describes himself as a descendant of the Kōga ninja and fights with a variety of weapons.