Edo no Kaze

Edo no Kaze (江戸の旋風) was a Japanese jidaigeki (period drama) broadcast on prime-time television that ran from 1975 to 1981. Its lead star was Yūzō Kayama.^[1][2][3][4]

Edo no Kaze
Also known as	江戸の旋風
Genre	Jidaigeki
Directed by	Kazuo Mori Tokuzō Tanaka Kōzaburō Yoshimura
Starring	Yūzō Kayama Keiju Kobayashi Shigeru Tsuyuguchi Kunie Tanaka Masaya Oki Yasuaki Kurata Eitaro Ozawa Hiroya Morita Taisaku Akino Mie Hama Takeo Chii Ryō Ikebe
Theme music composer	Katsuhisa Hattori
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of series	5
No. of episodes	210
Production
Running time	46 minutes (per episode)
Production companies	Fuji TV, Toho Company
Original release
Network	Fuji TV
Release	April 1975 (1975-04) – August 28, 1981 (1981-08-28)

The series was based on Kazuo Shimada's novel of the same title. It became a popular broadcast, leading to the production of five series and a two-hour special.^[5]

Plot

Characters

• Yūzō Kayama^[6] as Chiaki Joenosuke
• Keiju Kobayashi as Hayashida Magobei
• Minoru Chiaki as Hayami Shigetaro
• Yousuke Kondō as Takase
• Masaaki Tsusaka as Sanai
• Ryō Ikebe as Nezu (first series, episodes 14-49)
• Kunie Tanaka as Yura (first series)
• Takeo Chii as Mihoki (first series)
• Mie Hama as Oyou (first series)
• Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as Shimazu Hanzō (series II-IV)
• Masaya Oki as Tachibana Seiichirō (Shin Edo no Kaze)^[7]
• Yasuaki Kurata as Todō Ken (Shin Edo no Kaze)
• Atsushi Watanabe as Higure Shinsaku (Shin Edo no Kaze)

Seasons

• Edo no Kaze (1975–76) - 49 episodes
• Edo no Kaze II (1976–77) - 53 episodes
• Edo no Kaze III (1977–78) - 50 episodes
• edo no Kaze IV (1978–79) - 26 episodes
• Shin edo no Kaze (1980–81) - 31 episodes
• Edo no Kaze Special (1983) - two-hour special