NHK大河ドラマ第17作。
平家打倒の旗印を掲げ、源氏の嫡流たる源頼朝のもとに結集した関東武士団の栄光と悲劇を描くドラマ。頼朝の妻となる北条政子を大河初出演の岩下志麻が演じ、源平の争乱から鎌倉幕府の創設、やがては源氏の衰亡へと移ろう愛憎の歴史劇が展開される。ちなみに、大河において女性を主人公とするのは初めての試みで、それと同時に家族関係の描写などにはホームドラマ的な要素が盛り込まれた。これは以後『おんな太閤記』や『春日局』に代表される橋田壽賀子ドラマの登場につながっていく。また、本作では一ノ谷や壇ノ浦など、野外ロケを多用した合戦のスペクタクルシーンに力を入れる一方、劇中の会話をすべて現代語調に統一。この点については視聴者の賛否両論を呼んだ。
01 第一回 蛭が小島の流人
02 第二回 恋文
03 第三回 二人義経
04 第四回 政子略奪
05 第五回 婿殿、舅殿
06 第六回 密使は走る
07 第七回 頼朝起つ
08 第八回 石橋山の合戦
09 第九回 頼朝再起
10 第十回 鎌倉へ
11 第十一回 兄の涙・弟の涙
12 第十二回 飢餓亡者
13 第十三回 若君誕生
14 第十四回 政子狂乱
15 第十五回 愛のかたみ
16 第十六回 人質
17 第十七回 義経出陣
18 第十八回 亀裂
19 第十九回 京の白拍子
20 第二十回 壇の浦
21 第二十一回 義経凱旋
22 第二十二回 鎌倉の刺客
23 第二十三回 都の盗賊たち
24 第二十四回 静の舞
25 第二十五回 頼朝上洛
26 第二十六回 法皇崩御
27 第二十七回 義時の妻
28 第二十八回 富士の巻狩
29 第二十九回 曾我兄弟
30 第三十回 大姫錯乱
31 第三十一回 黒いつむじ風
32 第三十二回 頼朝の死
33 第三十三回 姫君毒殺
34 第三十四回 頼家乱行
35 第三十五回 梶原景時の滅亡
36 第三十六回 悪禅師全成
37 第三十七回 北条の陰謀
38 第三十八回 比企滅亡
39 第三十九回 頼家追放
40 第四十回 修善寺
41 第四十一回 華燭
42 第四十二回 畠山討伐
43 第四十三回 父と子
44 第四十四回 後鳥羽院頌歌
45 第四十五回 小夜菊
46 第四十六回 和田合戦
47 第四十七回 幻の船
48 第四十八回 船霊
49 第四十九回 実朝暗殺
50 第五十回 三浦義村の策謀
51 最終回 承久の乱

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.

When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the acting boss of the Ohara gang also has his eyes on the property and recruits crooked detective Tokumatsu Kuno to help him hijack the deal. With relations between the rival gangs at breaking point, it's not long before all-out war breaks out as the gangsters, police and local politicians battle for control of the city.

On summer vacation, university student Shintaro gets involved with a magic troupe as they travel from festival to festival.

A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.

A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.

Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military munitions, Tajima steps in to stop what the cops can't.

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

Ryuko was raised by her father, a gambler named Senzo Yano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, after her mother died when she was little. When she turned 18 years old, her father was attacked and killed by a stranger in alley. Ryuko then dissolves her yakuza family, and, carrying the wallet left by the killer, she sets out on a journey to avenge her father's death. Five years later, she wanders the nation, known only as! Red Peony Oryu who has a red peony tattooed on her shoulder and has the defiance and courage of a man. She meets Katagiri - a loner gambler, Kumatora - boss of a family in Shikoku, and Otaka - female boss of the Doman Family in Osaka. With their help, she finally catches up with the man who murdered her father.

Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attempts to seize power from the boss, and Miyoshi finds himself stuck between the two factions with no honorable way out.

The famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism and intensity of this version scripted by Kurosawa Akira and starring Mifune Toshiro as the famed swordsman who must face his best friend as they are forced to take opposite sides in a vendetta caused by the murder of a family member. Told mostly in flashback as the avengers await the arrival of their quarry, this film displays true heroism in the face of fear as most of the combatants, while of the samurai class are not skilled swordsmen. They contrast sharply with the true warriors involved in this battle. Araki Mataemon (Mifune), who was not only a direct student of Yagyu Munenori, but the founder of his own sword style under the Yagyu name is a powerful force ready to assist his brother-in-law against the murderer's allies that include not only another noted sword teacher, but the deadly spear of Katsumi no Hanbei.

This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe. Lord Asano was goaded, or tricked, into drawing his sword inside the Shogun's palace -- a crime which carried the death penalty. The newly installed Shogun was furious at Asano and ordered all his clan's assets seized, meaning some 20,000 samurai and commoners were unemployed and landless at a stroke. Forty-seven of these ronin (masterless samurai) banded together to take attempt revenge on Lord Kira, who had goaded Asano into drawing his sword.

A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice.

Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her, Zatoichi determines to escort the baby to its father. He gains the reluctant help of a young pick pocket and together they travel to find the baby's father. But they do not reckon on the father's reaction to their arrival, nor on their own growing feelings for the child.

While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.

Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.

In ancient Japan, a good lord is killed and his throne is taken by the trecherous Yuki Daijo and his wizard friend Oroki-maru. The young prince Ikazuki-maru is rescued from the jaws of death by a magic bird sent by a wizard. Ten years later, Ikazuki-maru embarks on an adventure to avenge his parents and the wizard's death with his magic powers he learned from the wizard. He kills Yuki Daijo but then must battle Oroki-maru in a battle to the death.

As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.