Bushimeshi!--The Samurai Cook

TV series

Starring Koji Seto, Ayaka Miyoshi, Masao Kusakari, Keiko Toda

Set during the Bakumatsu (final years of the Edo period). Sakai Banshiro is a lower-class samurai. Leaving his family behind, he works at the lord’s castle. He consoles and solves worries of the people by making food from recipes sent from his wife.