建国史尊王攘夷 (1927)

Name: 建国史 尊王攘夷
Released: 1927-10-01
Rating: 4.5
Cast: 大河内傳次郎, 尾上多見太郎, 澤村春子, 山本嘉一, 谷崎十郎

For nearly 300 years, Japan had been hermetically sealed to the outside world. When, in that pivotal year of 1854, the American Admiral Perry took the direct approach that the Dutch had been unwilling to take, the ruling Shogun knew that the dynasty was over. As the shogun began to open up to the outside world, the Sonno Joi movement called for this to be reversed...