A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era (1991)
幕末純情伝
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.
- Date of release
- 1991-07-06
- TMDB
- 7.5 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Director
- Mitsuyuki Yakushiji
Casting
- Ken Watanabe — Ryoma Sakamoto
- Riho Makise — Soji Okita
- Tetta Sugimoto — Toshizo Hijikata
- Masatô Ibu — Isamu Kondo
- Naomi Zaizen — Miyuki
- Akira Emoto — Kogoro Katsura
- Takaaki Enoki — Katamori Matsudaira
- Masahiko Tsugawa — Tomomi Iwakura
- Kenjirou Ishimaru — Toshimichi Okubo
- Kinzō Sakura — Saigo Takamori
- Yoneko Matsukane — Otose
- Kazuya Kimura — Izo Okada
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