Details
Title: 天罰屋 れ 闇 始末帖
Title (romaji): Tenbatsu ya Kurenai Yami no Shimatsu Jou
Also known as: The Avengers
Episodes: 10
Genre: Jidaigeki
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Broadcast network: TV Asahi
Broadcast period: 2003-04-21 to 2003-06-23
Air time: Monday 19:00pm to 19:54
Theme Song: Saiun / 彩雲
Synopsis
The drama takes place during the Meiji era. Matsuzaka Kurenai is just your ordinary wife and mother. Stays home and takes care of her son and the house while her husband is away at work. But she has a disturbing past... Her father was once what we'd today call a mercinary - a person who basically kills people for justice and money. As a little girl, Kurenai witnessed her father on the job killing someone. She since then hated him for what he was. As the years went by, she learned the art of short knife fighting.
In episode 1, Kurenai gets personally involved in a situation. She discovers that a women friend of hers hired a group of mercs to take someone out. But before they could be killed, they killed her and her family. Ebisuya Bunzo is the head of the mercs, with members Oaki, Kagenosuke, Akane and Ryuji. Kurenai asks if she can get involved, but Bunzo (who also happens to be an ex-partner of her father's) tells her she must take part of the money or to get lost. So she ends up taking the money. Just like her father, Kurenai becomes a hired merc. --- written by Groink 10:03, 24 Jul 2005 (EDT)
Cast
Katahira Nagisa as Matsuzaka Kurenai
Watanabe Hiroyuki as Misogi Kagenosuke
Uehara Sakura as Oaki
Shirakawa Yujiro as Tamari Ichimatsu
Shimada Kyusaku as Matsuzaka Heinoshin
Suzuki Hiromitsu as Mosuke
Watanabe Azusa as Saigusa Akane
Takachi Noboru as Karakuri Ryuji
Furuya Ikko as Ebisuya Bunzo
Production Credits & Cast
Screenwriters: Imai Mikotonorini (1), Ikawa Kimihiko (2,8), Fujii Kunio (3,5), Sakai Naoyuki (4,6,9,10), Bisai Kenichi (7)
Producers: Tanaka Yoshiyuki, Kobayashi Yoshiyuki, Yokozuka Takahiro
Directors: Ishikawa Ichiro (1-2,7-8), Yoshida Keiichiro (3-4), Kura Haruo (5-6,9-10)
Sound by: Kuriyama Kazuki
Notes
JN Productions named the drama The Avengers. KIKU-TV aired the series under the same name. English speakers associate with The Avengers more than the original Japanese name.
