Luzon Sukezaemon is a merchant who imports vases from the Philippines. The vases are highly valued as tea utensils and he makes a huge profit. This was the first taiga drama to concentrate on the lives of commoners and the reviled merchant class of the Tokugawa period. It documents the rise and fall of the merchant city of Sakai, as seen by its most famous resident, the semilegendary Luzon.
Matsumoto Hakuō II
Komaki Kurihara
Jinpachi Nezu
Koji Tsuruta
Tetsuro Tamba
Ryūzō Hayashi
Masahiko Tsugawa
Ken Ogata
Yukiyo Toake
Shiho Fujimura
Masaomi Kondo
Akira Onodera
Nobuyuki Katsube
Kōji Takahashi
Taketoshi Naitō
Yōko Shimada
Kiyoshi Kodama
Shigeru Kōyama