Masked Blade (1983)

Choshichiro Nagayori Matsudaira is the son of Tadanaga Tokugawa, which makes him a nephew of the Shogun. Tadanaga died as a result of an alleged plot to overthrow his elder brother, the third shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu. Because of Choshichiro’s complicated background, he lives among the commoners in the shogunal capital city of Edo, punishing the evil when he sees wrongdoings and injustice.

• First Air Date: 1983-10-18
• Last Air Date: 1986-12-23
• Total Seasons: 1
• Total Episodes: 118
• Network: Nippon TV
• Directors: Junji Kurata, Yukihiro Sawada, Akinori Matsuo, Yoshiyuki Kuroda, Kōsei Saitō.
• Writers: Ikuro Suzuki, Ei Ogawa, Noboru Sugimura, Kenichi Onishi, Yasuhiro Sakurai.