A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
1991, Japanese. Directed by Mitsuyuki Yakushiji.
In the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, there was a cute warrior, Souji Okita, who belonged to the armed police of the shogunate in Kyoto. Very few knew that Souji was not a boy, but a woman. Souji loved the vice-leader of the armed police, Toshizou Hijikata. Souji suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis and coughed up blood during a battle. Toshizou helped her but said that he did not care for the girl with a smell of blood. Souji had a real talent for swordsmanship and no one but Ryouma Sakamoto could compete with her. Ryouma was a liberal intellectual and tried to carry out a revolution without blood. However, the bloody Meiji Restoration broke out and Souji killed Ryouma who lost his dream. Because a friendship had sprung up between Toshizou and Ryouma, Toshizou got angry and slashed at Souji with a sword. Unwillingly, she unsheathed her sword and thought that she might get love if she was killed by the man she loved.
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- 1h 42m
- Post-credits
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- Japanese
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Cast & crew
- Mitsuyuki YakushijiDirector
- Ken WatanabeRyoma Sakamoto
- Riho MakiseSoji Okita
- Tetta SugimotoToshizo Hijikata
- Masatô IbuIsamu Kondo
- Naomi ZaizenMiyuki
- Akira EmotoKogoro Katsura
- Takaaki EnokiKatamori Matsudaira
- Masahiko TsugawaTomomi Iwakura
- Kenjirou IshimaruToshimichi Okubo
- Kinzō SakuraSaigo Takamori
- Yoneko MatsukaneOtose
- Kazuya KimuraIzo Okada
Details
- Released
- 6 July 1991
- Original title
- 幕末純情伝
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Mitsuyuki Yakushiji
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A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era (1991) was directed by Mitsuyuki Yakushiji and stars Ken Watanabe, Riho Makise, Tetta Sugimoto.