TV series
Ōgon no Hibi
1978 · 1 season
A stately, character-driven historical drama that immerses you in the rhythms of merchant life, rewarding patience with rich period detail and quiet emotional payoffs.
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Matsumoto Hakuō II, Komaki Kurihara, Jinpachi Nezu
- Overview
- Luzon Sukezaemon is a merchant who imports vases from the Philippines. The vases are highly valued as tea utensils and he makes a huge profit. This was the first taiga drama to concentrate on the lives of commoners and the reviled merchant class of the Tokugawa period. It documents the rise and fall of the merchant city of Sakai, as seen by its most famous resident, the semilegendary Luzon.
- How it feels
- Earnest, melancholic and tense. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Ambition, class, family, power
- Content
- Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Matsumoto Hakuō II, Komaki Kurihara, Jinpachi Nezu
