The third episode of the NHK Taiga drama " UNBOUND (Berabou) " (General TV, Sunday 8pm and others), starring actor Ryusei Yokohama , entitled "Welcome to the Millionaires: A Thousand Glances", was broadcast on January 19th, and the average viewership rating (according to Video Research, Kanto region, same below) was 11.7% for households and 6.8% for individuals.
" UNBOUND (Berabou)" is the 64th taiga drama, depicting the life of Tsutaya Juzaburo(or "Tsutajyu" for short), who is said to have built the foundations of Japan's media industry and pop culture. The script was written by Yoshiko Morishita, known for "Drama 10 'Ooku'" which was broadcast on NHK two years ago and became a big hit.
In the third episode, even after Tsutaesu (Yokohama-san) has reformed Yoshiwara Hosomi, he continues to raise funds from the prostitutes and rushes around to create a new book.
Surugaya (Katsumi Takahashi) is furious and cannot forgive Tsutaju for this, so he kicks him out of his house. Tsutaju, however, refuses to give up on making books, so he visits the artist Kitao Shigemasa (Jun Hashimoto). Meanwhile, in Edo Castle, Tanuma Okitsugu(Ken Watanabe) is consulting with Shogun Ieharu (Kokoro Terada) back to the Shirakawa Matsudaira family for adoption, which had once been cancelled... and so the story unfolds.
Towards the end of the film, Yoshiwara is flooded with customers thanks to Tsutaju's "One Thousand Books at a Glance." Ichiuemon, the owner of Surugaya, who had been so opposed to Tsutaju's bookmaking, also approves, and just when you think everything will be happy, Ayase Haruka's narration begins, "But behind the scenes, dark passions are lurking," and the profile of Urokogataya Magobe (Kataoka Ainosuke) is shown in close-up.
Furthermore, the head of the Tayasu family, Tayasu Jisatsu (Irie Jinji), coughs in agony and eventually dies. Just before that, the image of Hitotsubashi Jisatsu (Ikuta Toma) manipulating a puppet in the dark and the "strings" snapping were inserted as if to suggest something, and the episode ended with a disturbing atmosphere.
