Ōoka Echizen


Ōoka Echizen is a Japanese prime-time television jidaigeki series. From March 16, 1970 to March 15, 1999, 402 episodes and 15 seasons were broadcast. Also, a two-hour special aired on March 20, 2006, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the National Gekijō, which occupies the Monday evening 8:00–8:54 pm time slot on the TBS network, sponsored by Matsushita. It alternated, seasonally, with Mito Kōmon and Edo o Kiru.
The title character is Ōoka Tadasuke, a historical person who was a magistrate in the city of Edo during the time of Tokugawa Yoshimune in the eighteenth century. The magistrate acted as chief of police, judge and jury. The show was a detective-courtroom program. Actor Gō Katō created the title character and played him throughout the life of the series.
Sōgen Asahina did the title calligraphy. Takeo Yamashita did the music. The series was produced by C.A.L. It has been widely rerun on terrestrial and pay satellite television in Japan. Some episodes available on DVD.

Cast

Ōoka Family
  • Gō Katō as Ōoka Tadasuke
  • Chiezō Kataoka as Ōoka Tadataka, Tadasuke's father
  • Haruko Katō as Ōoka Tae, Tadasuke's mother
  • Masayo Utsunomiya as Yukie, Tadasuke's wife
  • Wakako Sakai as Yukie
  • Yoshie Taira as Yukie
  • Tatsugorō Ōkawa as Ōoka Tadayoshi, Tadasuke's son
Other
  • Yuji Hori as Yoshimura Sakuzaemon, Yukie's foster father
  • Murasaki Fujima as Shizuka, Yukie's mother
Koishikawa Yōjōsho and other doctors
  • Muga Takewaki as Iori Sakakibara
  • Sanae Tsuchida as Chiharu, Genzo's daughter
  • Mariko Mochizuki as Ine
  • Takashi Shimura as Umino Donshū, Iori's mentor
  • Hideo Takamatsu as Itō Kōan
  • Ayako Sawada as Ochiyo
  • Kiyotaka Mitsugi as Bunkichi
  • Izumi Yamaguchi as Takasaka Chie
  • Fumihiko Fujima as Kudō Shingo
  • Reiko Niwa as Ine
  • Teruhiko Saigō as Shinzaburō
  • Kiyoshi Takai as Takagi
  • Ritsuko Nemoto as Shiho
  • Saori Yumiba as Kikue
Government
Officers and their family and assistants
  • Yoriki at Minami-machi
  • *Shigeru Amachi as Kamiyama Samon
  • *Daijirō Harada as Ikeda Daisuke
  • *Tomokazu Miura as Sagara Shunsuke
  • *Tokuma Nishioka as Katahira Yaheiji
  • Doushin at Minami-machi and their family
  • *Shirō Ōsaka as Murakami Genjirō
  • *Kakuko Motoyama as Mino, Genjiro's second wife
  • *Kyōko Yoshizawa as Aya, Mino's daughter
  • *Kōji Wada as Kazama Shunsuke
  • *Kensaku Morita as Kaburagi Heisuke
  • *Yūsuke Satō as Tachibana Kyōnosuke
  • *Yūko Funakura as Chizuru, Kyōnosuke's elder sister
  • *Asao Sano as Sahashi Magobē
  • *Naomi Kawashima as Chinatsu, Magobei's daughter
  • *Wataru Shihōdō as Kitakaze Shōgo
  • *Keisuke Sano as Katase Kentarō
  • *Daijirō Harada as Kakei Jinpachi
  • *Masao Komatsu as Akagaki Denbē
  • *Masaki Terasoma as Natsume jinpachi
  • *Hideomi Shima as Kitajima Shunsuke
  • *Eiko Ito as Shōko, Akagaki's wife
  • Doushin's assistants
  • *Gentarō Takahashi as Suttobi no Tatsu, Genjiro's assistant
  • *Mariko Endō as Ohana, Tatsu's wife
  • *Wakiko Kanō as Okei
  • *Kan'ichi Tani as Kanta
  • *Haruko Sagara as Okyō, Kanta's niece
  • *Shigeru Inoue as Mogura no kyūsuke
  • *Shidō Nakamura as Kokichi
  • *Shun Ueda as Fusakichi
  • *Jun'ichi Mizuno as Taichi
  • *Masami Sonoda as Mizusumashi no Gengorō
  • Doushin at Kita-machi
  • *Mitsuru Satō as Togasaki Shinbei
  • *Katsumasa Uchida as Kanzaki Gorouji
Secret Assistants
Carpenters and Firefiters and their family
  • Kōtarō Satomi as Masakichi
  • Shinobu Tsuruta as Yakichi
  • Takeya Nakamura as Tobi no Isaburō
  • Eiko Takehara as Kayo
Servants in Ōoka Family's house
  • Mariko Endō as Ohana, Tatsu's wife
  • Miyuki Nishimura as Ochiyo
  • Ai Yasunaga as Ohana
  • Yūko Hanashima as Osuzu
  • Hideomi Shima as Kitamura Ippei
  • Tomoe Yoshii as Sumire
Diner Tanuki
Secret assistants
  • Eitarō Matusyama as Mashira no Sanji
  • Seiji Matsuyama as Mashira no Sanji
  • Maria Mori as Oryū
  • Tonpei Hidari as Chōnome no Hanji
  • Miyuki Nakano as Osuzu
  • Mikisuke Katsura as Hayabusa no Rokusuke
Workers
  • Miyako Tasaka as Ohana
  • Mutsuko Sakura as Okin
  • Shinobu Yūki as Ohana
  • Chiyoe Sakaki as Otoki
  • Misako Okada as Okimi
  • Sota Ohashi as Tomekichi
  • Ikuko Yamamoto as Oyumi
  • Yuka Katayama as Ochiyo
  • Miwa Sakagami as Oaki
  • Yumi Katō as Oharu
  • Kyōko Katsuragawa as Onatsu
  • Yuri Kobayashi as Ofuyu
  • Misa Shimizu as Shinobu
  • Yasuko Takahashi as Otama,Oume,
  • Keiko Un'no as Omatsu
  • Mayuko Nakao as Otake
  • Yuka Ayaki as Okimi, Oaki
  • Asuka Morinaga as Ohana