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*Ōoka Echizen*
Ōoka Echizen
Genre	Jidaigeki
Country of origin	Japan
No. of episodes	402
Production
Running time	54 minutes
Original release
Network	TBS
Release	March 16, 1970 –; March 15, 1999

Ōoka Echizen (大岡越前) 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,^[1] 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 (the forerunner of modern Tokyo) 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.^[2]

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

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Ōoka Family

Gō Katō as Ōoka Tadasuke
Chiezō Kataoka as Ōoka Tadataka, Tadasuke's father (Series 1-6)
Haruko Katō as Ōoka Tae, Tadasuke's mother (Series 1-7)
Masayo Utsunomiya as Yukie, Tadasuke's wife (Series 1-6)
Wakako Sakai as Yukie (Series 7-8)
Yoshie Taira as Yukie (Series 9-15)
Tatsugorō Ōkawa as Ōoka Tadayoshi, Tadasuke's son (Series 3)

Other

Yuji Hori as Yoshimura Sakuzaemon, Yukie's foster father (Series 1-2)
Murasaki Fujima as Shizuka, Yukie's mother (Series 13-15)

Koishikawa Yōjōsho (the Koishikawa "city hospital") and other doctors

Muga Takewaki as Iori Sakakibara
Sanae Tsuchida as Chiharu, Genzo's daughter (Series 2-4)
Mariko Mochizuki as Ine (Series 2-3)
Takashi Shimura as Umino Donshū, Iori's mentor (Series 1 in Story 11, Series 2-3)
Hideo Takamatsu as Itō Kōan (Series 4)
Ayako Sawada as Ochiyo (Series 4)
Kiyotaka Mitsugi as Bunkichi (Series 4)
Izumi Yamaguchi as Takasaka Chie (Series 5)
Fumihiko Fujima as Kudō Shingo (Series 5)
Reiko Niwa as Ine (Series 6)
Teruhiko Saigō as Shinzaburō (Series 6, 14-15)
Kiyoshi Takai as Takagi (Series 8-15)
Ritsuko Nemoto as Shiho (Series 9-14)
Saori Yumiba as Kikue (Series 15)

Government

Takashi Yamaguchi as Tokugawa Yoshimune
Munemaru Kōda as Mizuno Izumi-no-kami (Series 11-12)
Shinji Takano as Nakayama Izumo-no-kami (Series 12-14)

Officers and their family and assistants

Yoriki at Minami-machi
- Shigeru Amachi as Kamiyama Samon (Series 1-3)
- Daijirō Harada as Ikeda Daisuke (Series 3)
- Tomokazu Miura as Sagara Shunsuke (Series 4)
- Tokuma Nishioka as Katahira Yaheiji (Series 12)
Doushin at Minami-machi and their family
- Shirō Ōsaka as Murakami Genjirō (Series 1-9)
- Kakuko Motoyama as Mino, Genjiro's second wife (Series 4)
- Kyōko Yoshizawa as Aya, Mino's daughter (Series 4)
- Kōji Wada as Kazama Shunsuke (Series 5-9)
- Kensaku Morita as Kaburagi Heisuke (Series 8-12)
- Yūsuke Satō as Tachibana Kyōnosuke (Series 9-14)
- Yūko Funakura as Chizuru, Kyōnosuke's elder sister (Series 9-14)
- Asao Sano as Sahashi Magobē (Series 10-13)
- Naomi Kawashima as Chinatsu, Magobei's daughter (Series 11)
- Wataru Shihōdō as Kitakaze Shōgo (Series 10)
- Keisuke Sano as Katase Kentarō (Series 11-15)
- Daijirō Harada as Kakei Jinpachi (Series 12-13)
- Masao Komatsu as Akagaki Denbē (Series 12-15)
- Masaki Terasoma as Natsume jinpachi (Series 14-15)
- Hideomi Shima as Kitajima Shunsuke (Series 15)
- Eiko Ito as Shōko, Akagaki's wife (Series 15)
Doushin's assistants
- Gentarō Takahashi as Suttobi no Tatsu, Genjiro's assistant (Series 1-15)
- Mariko Endō as Ohana, Tatsu's wife (Series 5-10)
- Wakiko Kanō as Okei (Series 7-8)
- Kan'ichi Tani as Kanta (Series 8-15)
- Haruko Sagara as Okyō, Kanta's niece (Series 11)
- Shigeru Inoue as Mogura no kyūsuke (Series 12)
- Shidō Nakamura as Kokichi (Series 14)
- Shun Ueda as Fusakichi (Series 15)
- Jun'ichi Mizuno as Taichi (Series 15)
- Masami Sonoda as Mizusumashi no Gengorō (Series 8-11)
Doushin at Kita-machi
- Mitsuru Satō as Togasaki Shinbei (Series 4)
- Katsumasa Uchida as Kanzaki Gorouji (Series 5)