A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era (1991)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

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

Director & Crew

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