Air Date
April 16, 1979
Episodes
36 episodes
The 47 Ronins of Ako
Season 1
Episodes
1. Rain of Flowers
April 16, 1979
First Episode
2. Blood Spilled in the Pines Corridor
April 23, 1979
3. The Useless and the Hyobu of the Cats
April 30, 1979
4. The Joro Spider
May 7, 1979
5. Storm at Ako Castle
May 14, 1979
6. Proud Samurai
May 21, 1979
7. Secret Dispute
May 28, 1979
8. The Secret Brief
June 4, 1979
9. Decision
June 11, 1979
10. Vernal Storm
June 18, 1979
11. Kuranosuke's Assassination
June 25, 1979
12. One Shot
July 2, 1979
13. Delivery of the Castle
July 9, 1979
14. A New Journey
July 16, 1979
15. Binoculars
July 23, 1979
16. The Woman with the Seven Faces
July 30, 1979
17. Forbidden Love
August 6, 1979
18. The Song of the Cicadas
August 13, 1979
19. The Daimon-Ji of Tragic Love
August 20, 1979
20. Firefly Light
August 27, 1979
21. Autumn Reminiscences
September 3, 1979
22. Kuranosuke Goes to Edo
September 10, 1979
23. Reunion
September 17, 1979
24. Passion
September 24, 1979
25. Search the Kira Residence!
October 1, 1979
26. The Last Goodbye in Yamashina
October 8, 1979
27. The Relic of the Long Desire of the Mother and the Son
October 15, 1979
28. The Departure for Vengeance
October 22, 1979
29. Decadent Youth
October 29, 1979
30. Oishi's Journey to the East
November 5, 1979
31. Desperate Attack
November 12, 1979
32. A Deadly Fight for Destiny
November 19, 1979
33. The Night Before the Attack
November 26, 1979
34. It's Time! The Raid!
December 3, 1979
35. Triumph at Dawn
December 10, 1979
36. The Way of the Samurai in the Genroku Era
December 17, 1979
Tomoko Aihara
Okô
Shigeru Amachi
Wakizaka Awaji-no-Kami
Gorō Ibuki
Horibe Yasubei
Nobuo Kawai
Fujii Mataemon
Yūsuke Kawazu
Kobayashi Heihachirô
Kyôko Kishida
Ôishi Riku
Akiji Kobayashi
Hara Soemon
Ken Matsudaira
Asano Takumi-no-Kami
Hiroki Matsukata
Keiko Matsuzaka
Aguri
Yūki Meguro
Uesugi Noritsuna
Toshirō Mifune
Tachibana Sakon