The composition of the "bodyguard" series including "I am a bodyguard" is that the ronin (masterless samurais) and his companion guard weak people who lives in an obscure corner of a town. Every time, the drama is concluded. However, they only encountered the event by chance. They pass each other with people without allowing the deep emotion that they finished by one work to be held to us . We never import feelings to the hero who simply takes heroic action in the name for the justice etc. and never taste the catharsis. Oppositely, we can't help stopping to wake up the yearning to the humanism which flows to deep of the human society by the thing that they pass by in the event. It comfortably enters straight as deep impression in us.

The theme of the bodyguard series is drawing this world where irrationality which cannot be approved and miserable limits are filled. Bodyguards are pilots. In extreme cases ,they are only the subsidiary characters essential for the development of the plot. The drama can be classified into the theme of a young fellow, a yakuza , a yeomanry , a servant, a prostitute , a young couple, a father, a defective patriot , and a good-natured patriot , etc.. However, generally, there is little difference . No one knows serious events on which people drawn there stake their lifes . With the bodyguard series, KESSOKU Shinji aimed to excavate histories of people who had not been drawn in the history . Then, being expressed as people's goodness is not an appearance of the boast to leave others in the starting point of the evaluation, and is sincerity of themselves.

In the stories, love , man conflicts or confrontation between feudal soldiers and clans , etc. are skillfully engaged and included. This should be if this seems to be natural because it is a thing which does not depend on a single event the man life but consists of a complex factor. However, such a method is adopted in the composition of a dramatic drama of the thing of drawing the nicety of a complex mausoleum of the society in the round for his work. For instance, make to love, and drawing it in the movement of the flow society of the age becomes interesting with alive more living as for his and her experience and putting an importunate introduction at first. This might be KESSOKU Shinji's basic dramaturgy.

"Who? Tell your name?"

"Is it I ? I am a bodyguard ."

"I am a bodyguard" starts by the line of "Is it I?". However, resignation and emptiness are felt in the line "Is it I?" which is vomited like the sigh. It might be angry to badness, and it might be sadness to the existence of badness. Period plays commonly show people and peasantry suffering by the rebellion , and the badness to give a clear-cut attitude threaten the life of such a peaceful townsman . Badness of this work is looks different from the simple way a little . Therefore, it might become a conversion drama by Mr. YOSHIMOTO Takaaki, who will be quoted later. It might be emptiness of the existence of the unsophisticated people who have continued to defend the extremely human one being likely to keep incessantly flowing even if there is a more social revolution that the person who lives in sincerity and something conservatism of it to the one torn up tragically. However, the hand of saving can be only held out to one daughter whom the whore master can entice after all because it is a lone wolf no matter how the hero is strong. He does not become power to revolutionize non-human system. And, his power does not reach even such daughter's life, and it disappears in the bubble. Emptiness adheres and turns only to the humanist. It is the one to do a pitiful feeling pathos feeling there and for the friendship mutual trust which the oak and people intimately become to do to the inside and outside. Therefore, the catastrophe of "I am a bodyguard" (tragic end) feels optimism (optimism principle) to man love opposite by the existence of writer's spirit.

"No one knows what the woman finally ends up . " We should recognize that it is a root question on the thing of man's "Live" the narration. This narration causes strong nostalgia to stick to reverberations of the emotion by "Anxiety". "I am a bodyguard" is a paean to a pure and innocent soul.

" Sir ,where will you go now?"

"Is it I?"

"--- Where this man goes, this man does not know too . ---"

I searched for books on the history of my bookshelf after he disappears in the highway, because I think that he comes out there. These final televising was in 1967.

Bodyguard's character is a certain loneliness which comes out from the place (no grimness, the system of the escape, and strength). It is consciousness of bodyguard's stray dog. It of the fan is denied dying though the connection with the person is shown when running of a small mind each other is felt in OGI Chikage. It is exactly an contraposition of people who are related to any communities. And, there was SHINADA Manpey between the two as a third party character. Such character makes Mr. Okita say "You are great masters. ".