Kaze no Youjinbou: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

In this modern day reimagining of Akira Kurosawa's film Yojimbo, Jyouji ("George") Kodama has arrived in Kimujuku, a town distinctly divided by two rival factions, in order to search for a man named Genzo Araki. Unable to find him, he instead finds that Kimujuku's residents are hiding something, and begins working for the town's factions in an effort to uncover the secret.

Note that English episode titles were created for International release in 2004, but they do not correspond to any official Japanese ones, since none existed. Some later Japanese DVD releases or reprints retroactively listed English titles or katakana approximations, but these were based on the English version. Original Japanese release just had episode numbers included (第1話 ... 第25話), there were no official or any other episode titles prior to International localized release several years later which added titles on their own, and not based on Japanese ones, which were non-existent.

Series details

• Title: Kaze no Youjinbou
• Format: Animation
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Anime, Mystery
• Premiere date: 2001-10-02
• Final broadcast date listed: 2002-03-19
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: NTV
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 25831
• IMDb ID: tt0318901
• TVDB ID: 74462

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2001-10-02; final listed air date 2002-03-19.

Source and licence

Adapted from Kaze no Youjinbou on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.