The third episode of the NHK Taiga drama " UNBOUND (Berabou) " (General TV, Sundays at 8pm and others), starring actor Ryusei Yokohama , entitled "A Thousand Visitors at a Glance", was broadcast on January 19th, and the unsettling ending drew viewers' attention.
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 appearance of the "strings" being cut are inserted as if to suggest something.
On social media, viewers responded with comments such as, "This makes me want to write a book! But the last minute was disturbing," "It ended on a really disturbing note," "In contrast to the lively Yoshiwara, the area around Edo Castle was disturbing...," and "The shogunate part was too disturbing, it was scary." Scratches showing "traces of agony" were seen on the dead Jisatsu's chest, and comments included, "Eeek. Even if the threads were cut, this...", "It can't have been poisoned," "Was he poisoned? As usual in taiga dramas?" and "Jisai is really scary. 'Drama 10 Ooku' is traumatic."
