Kumokiri Nizaemon

is a Japanese television jidaigeki or period drama that was broadcast in prime-time in 1995 on Fuji TV. It is based on Shōtarō Ikenami's novel of the same title. It stars Tsutomu Yamazaki. Plot In the Kyōhō period, there was a group of bandits called Kumokiri from the people of Edo. Tokugawa shogunate appoints Abe Shikibu a head post of the Hitsuke Tōzoku Aratamegata to arrest Kumokiri clan. Cast Tsutomu Yamazaki : Kumokiri Nizaemon Renji Ishibashi : Kinezumi no Kichigorō Atsuo Nakamura : Abe Shikibu Tetsurō Tamba : Tsuji Kuranosuke Hirotarō Honda : Kumagorō Naomasa Musaka : Tominoichi Takehiko Ono : Fukuemon Kōjirō Kusanagi : Echigoya Zenemon Kimiko Ikegami : Nanabake no Ochiyo Ken Nishida : Yamada Sei Hiraizumi : Okada Shigeru Kōyama : Matsuya Denbei Other adaptation Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron