In 1863, when American warships approach Japan, an enigmatic ronin becomes an important figure in a complex game of power between the Shogunate and the empire.
Direction
Shinoda's compositions turn political meetings into doom paintings.
Cinematography
Deep shadows and fog that swallow entire armies.
Acting
Tetsuro Tamba's grin hides everything and nothing.
Director
Masahiro Shinoda
Tetsuro Tamba
Hachiro Kiyokawa
Eiji Okada
Lord Matsudaira
Eitarō Ozawa
Premier Itakura
Isao Kimura
Tadasaburo Sasaki
Shima Iwashita
Oren
Keiji Sada
Takeshi Kusaka
Muga Takewaki
Shingo Miyagawa
Tamotsu Hayakawa
Shôzô Ishizaka
Fujio Suga
Kyûô Udono
Takanobu Hozumi
Tetsutaro Yamaoka
Tetsuji Takechi
Hisamizu Shimazu
Gen Shimizu
Jûjirô Ishii
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 1960s 'Japanese New Wave' that used jidai-geki to criticize contemporary politics — this film implicitly questions 1960s US-Japan relations through 1863's Perry crisis.
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