• Brick McBurly-yours truly, a modern day American cheeseball Japanese historian and archaeologist who finds himself transported back through time to the Sengoku Jidai (and beyond) when he recites an arcane Shingon Buddhist scroll found inside a statue of Prince Shotoku.  The incredibly handsome Brickster seeks to find a way back to his own time while helpin' the tapestry of Japanese history unfold as it should (and scorin' with as many chicks as possible along the way). Brick may not be the smartest, strongest, or most skilled guy around-but he's one of the craftiest. The studio wanted to keep the character's name the same as mine to cash in on the name recognition from my status as a 'gaijin tarento' on Japanese entertainment shows. I'll also be playin' Popeye McBurly, my ancestor on board one of Perry's Black Ships.
• Perfesser Chiba Tsunetane (Chiba Naomasa)-Brick's mentor/employer and expert in the field of Japanese mythology and the supernatural.
• Shrine Maiden Koyori (Koyori McBurly)-leader of a group of Warrior Shrine Maidens pledged to protect the homes of kami from maraudin' samurai, Koyori pledges fealty to Brick after he accidently defeats her in single combat (hey, it's better to be lucky than good). Koyori's the mistress of the naginata and possesses mad skillz, but is far less successful in tryin' to keep Brick on the righteous path.
• Abe No Seimei (tenatively Nomura Mansai)-providin' comic relief for the series will be Brick’s sidekick, the famed onmyoji Abe No Seimei. Seimei finds himself sent several hundred years into the future to the Sengoku Jidai when, durin' a drunken stupor, he botches an exorcism rite. The two displaced adventurers decide to team up to seek a way back to their respective eras. Seimei's magic has a way of comin' and goin', producin' unexpected results and winnin' plenty of bets in Sengoku drinkin' establishments.
• Miyamoto Musashi (comedian Hard Gay )
• -Season 1's weekly nemesis-the self professed master swordsman makes his rep by claimin' for hisself the feats of others-includin' Koyori's. He sees the unarmed Brick as a perfect way to inflate his rep, but finds out the hard way that it ain't that easy. He continues turnin' up from time to time, tryin' to get his revenge on the Brickster.
• Susa-no-o (tenatively GACKT)-Season 2's weekly nemesis-a livin' man-god and a legendary figure of Ancient Japan who historically slew the eight headed serpent Orochi and claimed Kusanagi (one of the three pieces of the Imperial Regalia, and necessary to become Emperor). Susa-no-o's strength is matched only by his short temper and lack of brains. When Brick beats him to slayin' Orochi and ends up with the famous sword Kusanagi, Susa-no-o becomes his mortal enemy. Foolin' around with Susa-no-o's sister Amaterasu and that Brick-sized wedgie he got proably didn't help things, either.
• Painless-the Brickster's non-lethal weapon of choice in Season 1, a sawed off boat oar. Bein' a peace lovin' Buddhist an' all, Brick don't believe in killin' his enemies, which comes in handy when you need to bring them back for another episode.
• Kusanagi-Season 2's weapon of choice. A more lethal weapon pulled from the butt of Orochi, the Brickster uses the flat of its blade to avoid killin' his foes. You never know-they might have cute sisters, and I wouldn't want to get them all upset with me. Kusanagi is loaded with mystical energy, makin' it effective when combatin' the supernatural foes of Season 2.
• Maiden of the Week-just like in Star Trek, someone needs to be cannon fodder. So Koyori's troop always has a sacrificial maiden ready to give her life for Brick every week. We're linin' up lots of gorgeous guest stars eager to appear in the series-you might see Uchiyama Rina, Matsushima Nanoka, or some other babe on any given episode.
• Tons' O Guest Stars!-There are all sorts of famous Japanese historical figures pepperin' the Abarenbo Gaijin landscape-Oda Nobunaga, Kondo Isami, Date Masamune, Uesugi Kenshin, William Adams, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Takeda Katsuyori, Akechi Mitsuhide, Ishida Mitsunari, Sakamoto Ryoma, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Izumo Okuni, and bunches more. More word on who's playin' who as filmin' continues.

Season 1 Episodes-13 one hour episodes plus a two hour final episode:all episode titles will be rendered in English, and the actress that plays Koyori will be doin' a short segment at the end of every episode on Western culture and humor that a Japanese audience might not ‘get’:

1) ”The Oar Is Mightier Than The Sword”:Brick is transported through time to Sengoku Japan where he meets Koyori, Abe, and runs afoul of Miyamoto Musashi.

2) ”Weather Or Not”:Takeda Katsuyori plans his Nagashino strategy around Brick’s weather forecasting skills.

3) ”The Hot Seat”:Brick tries to save the hard headed daimyo of Echigo, Uesugi Kenshin, by installing modern plumbing at his castle.

4) ”The Gaijin Lies At Honno-ji”:Akechi Mitsuhide finds himself at Honno-ji when he borrows Brick’s GPS. Hilarity ensues.

5) ”Maiden Japan”:This episode focuses on Koyori’s life before Brick showed up. Featured is her voyage to the Vatican where she requests that the Pope quit sending those damn Jesuits.

6) ”Date With Destiny”:Brick masquerades as Date Masamune at Odawara-jo in an attempt to stem Hideyoshi’s anger with the one-eyed dragon.

7)  ”The Adams Family”:Brick attempts to spring Will Adams from prison by posing as his older brother, later forgoing the plan when Adams admits he would, in fact, prefer a boy.

8) ”Propensity To Die”:In this tribute to Makai Tensho, all of the people Brick has screwed over in Japan (usually inadvertently) come back to life seeking revenge.

9) ”Shinsangumi”:Wise Shogun Yoshimune and Brick work together to stymie the plans of corrupt Shogunate officials and Edo merchants. This is the BIG ONE, at least for me. Matsudaira Ken reprises his role as Yoshimune along with many of the former cast. In a nod to the recent Zatoichi remake, the episode ends with Yoshimune, Brick, and the warrior maidens performing the samba at a local festival.

10) ”Honest Abe”:This episode focuses on Abe No Seimei. Brick bets the washed up onmyoji that he can’t go an entire week without trying to scam free food and drinks with cheap magic tricks.

11) ”Yakupalooza”:In this tribute to the Zatoichi films, Brick foils the plans of a crooked crime boss attempting to take over the local town festival.

12) ”Whack-A-Moto”:Brick tries to protect Sakamoto Ryoma from assassination, but Ryoma believes he’s a hired gun sent by evil arms dealer Thomas Glover to kill him.

13) ”The Lust Samurai”:Brick and Koyori come to an understanding against the backdrop of Saigo’s rebellion. Brick masterfully sets up Saigo in revenge for ‘those idiots from Choshu, Tosa, and Satsuma ruinin' everythin'’.

Two Hour Final:”Musashi’s Mama”:Just as Brick is about to reach his proper time, Seimei screws up and they begin where it all started. Brick must figure out a way to defeat Musashi’s troll like, seemingly invincible mama.

Abarenbo Gaijin Season 2 Episodes-13 one hour episodes plus a two hour final episode:
1) "O, Susa-no!"-McBurly and his entourage find themselves back in the earliest days of Japan after Seimei’s latest attempt at controlled time travel goes bad (again). Brick has his pizza-man stolen by the legendary eight headed serpent, Orochi,  and in the process of kicking the scaly beast’s hide and recovering his dinner comes into possession of the fabled ‘grass cutting sword’, Kusanagi. This doesn’t sit well with the man-god Susa-no-o, who sees the sword as his provenance.

2) "Onerymyoji"-Seimei gets a swelled head when the group finds itself involved with the Imperial Court during the Heian era. Now back in his own time, Seimei basks in the adulation of the court amid exaggerated tales of his exploits. Brick and Koyori find themselves forced to become his menial vassals in order to escape execution as Yokai, and the duo plot to bring Seimei back to his lovable drunken self.

3) "Genpein"-the lovely courtesan Shizuka does a headlong fall for Brick, which incurs the wrath of her erstwhile patron, Minamoto no Yoshitsune. To make matters worse, warrior monk Benkei develops an infatuation with Seimei. Yoshitsune decides to kill two birds with one stone and sets off after Brick’s band. As the Brickster hightails it down a hill with Shizuka in tow, Yoshitsune follows them down and inadvertently finds fame as he emerges in the middle of the Taira camp at Ichinotani.

4) "Dimyo"-Takeda Shingen cons Brick into acting as his double after he hears about an assassination plot being hatched by Tokugawa Ieyasu. While the wily Tiger Of Kai smugly congratulates himself, he’s in for a rude awakening when his female bodyguards (led by Lady Kae) take a liking to Brick and finger the real Shingen for Ieyasu’s hit squad.

5) "Snitchokoki"-Ota Gyuichi makes off with Brick’s copy of “The Samurai Sourcebook”. He uses the book as a guide to advising his lord, Oda Nobunaga, on what actions to take and which to avoid in his efforts to unite the country. Brick, realizing that this is, after all, a Turnbull book, knows that following that course will be fraught with unexpected danger for Nobunaga.

6) "Kiyomasa’s Great Korean Pussy Hunt" (with a script based on a story by the SA’s own Obenjo Kusanosuke)-Brick attempts to prevent Kato Kiyomasa’s captive, a beautiful Korean Princess, from being ripped in half by enticing the hot-headed killer Kiyomasa to join him on a tiger hunt. Seimei and Koyori don a tiger suit and succeed in luring the rather dull Kiyomasa away. However, the ploy backfires when a real tiger takes a shining to the ersatz feline. Brick must face the quandary of rescuing both the Princess and his two friends.

7) "Kellogg’s Pope Tarts"-When corrupt Jesuit Heinrich Kellogg (played by special guest star Stephen Seagull) attempts to smuggle Japanese prostitutes out of Japan and to the Vatican, he does so by disguising them as Catholic Nuns. By posing as a European falconry instructor, the Brickster enlists the aid of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu and gains entrance to the Black Ship as a Shogunal envoy. Brick decides it’s time to ‘get into the habit’ of saving these girls from a fate worse than death, setting them free to whore themselves out where they belong.

8 ) "Stiff Competition"-back from Season One, former Christian rebel and necromancer Amakusa Shiro returns from the grave to wreak vengeance on Brick. He does so by entrancing Koyori, turning her to his cause and using her against Brick. Faced with the choice of dying at her hands or being forced to slay her, Brick struggles to find a way out of this impossible situation.

9) "The Mongrel Invasion"-Brick manages to finagle himself into Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi’s good graces, and is appointed to the highest office in the Bakufu. Unfortunately for him, this turns out to be Keeper Of the Shogunate Kennels. When evil minister Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu turns loose a horde of rabid animals in Edo in an effort to discredit Brick, Keeper McBurly must swallow his pride and enlist the aid of that pesky sawed off runt, Corky The Wonder Dog, to identify the mastermind.

10) "Wild Kingdom"-Brick finds a kindred spirit in the Lord Of Ako, the drunken lecher Lord Asano Naganori. Asano’s ‘Neverland’ castle and ‘anything goes’ fief makes the Yoshiwara district look like the Vatican on Easter Sunday. The friendship proves to be short lived after Asano, losing at ‘Truth Or Dare’ during a drinking bout, takes up the double-dog dare (well, it IS during Tsunayoshi’s reign) of drawing his sword in Edo castle.

11) "The Wolf Of Mibu"-wanting to gift Koyori on her birthday and thinking he is enrolling her in a local dojo, Brick mistakenly enlists in the Shinsengumi. Hilarity ensues when the other members discover that Brick actually likes women, marking him for death.

12) "Face Off"-the Brickster displays the true scope of his acting range in this episode, playing four additional roles co-opted from his most popular films-the drunken womanizer Gyonyo (from the TV series ‘The Mountain Aesthetic’), the drunken womanizer Kuraku’d Tengu (from the TV special ‘Kuraku’d Tengu), the drunken womanizer Karuza Toma (from the film ‘The Lust Samurai’), and the drunken womanizer Orugasuma Eito (from the mega-hit film ‘Samurai Sexecutioner’). Trouble brews when the Evil Teamaster, Sen No Nagaeyari (from the TV series ‘The Bitter Teamaster’, where Brick played his nemesis Sam Adams), contrives to have all five of his enemies wander into Kyoto at the same time. When there isn’t enough sake or geisha to go around, a turf war erupts amongst the five.

13) Tales Of The Atari-When Brick takes out a room full of shishi in a barroom brawl, Choshu Han wants revenge. Thinking only Western ways can defeat Western ways, they hire the Australian ninja Heian Learn and her Tribe of secret assassins and samurai, the Atari, to punch the Brickster's ticket.

Two Hour Final: "Kofun Nails"-One of Susa-no-o’s schemes finally works and Brick is trapped inside a kofun, where he finds an angry Amaterasu (who has been hiding out inside since being ‘loved and left’ by the Brickster in episode one). Brick must not only survive the wrath of the jilted living Goddess, but also entice her to the outside world and bring light back to Japan. And after that, there’s the matter of the man-god Susa-no-o awaiting his turn for a showdown….