Season 1

Drama · 1978

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.

Starring

Shiroyama Saburo, Komaki Kurihara, Susumu Kondo, Jinpachi Nezu, Shin'ichi Ichikawa, Koji Tsuruta, Shūkei Nagasaka, Shinichirô Ikebe, Tetsurō Tamba

Producer

Susumu Kondo