A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era

1h 42min

Drama

Comedy

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.

Cast

Ken Watanabe

Ken Watanabe

Ryoma Sakamoto
Riho Makise

Riho Makise

Soji Okita
Tetta Sugimoto

Tetta Sugimoto

Toshizo Hijikata
Masatô Ibu

Masatô Ibu

Isamu Kondo
Akira Emoto

Akira Emoto

Kogoro Katsura
Takaaki Enoki

Takaaki Enoki

Katamori Matsudaira
Masahiko Tsugawa

Masahiko Tsugawa

Tomomi Iwakura
Kenjirou Ishimaru

Kenjirou Ishimaru

Toshimichi Okubo
Kinzō Sakura

Kinzō Sakura

Saigo Takamori
Kazuya Kimura

Kazuya Kimura

Izo Okada
Toshiya Ito

Toshiya Ito

Hanjiro Nakamura
Eisuke Tsunoda

Eisuke Tsunoda

Genzaburo Inoue

Release date

6th Jul 1991

Status

Released

Spoken languages

日本語