A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

July 6, 1991

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

KADOKAWA

Cast

Toshiya Ito,Koji Sato,Naomi Zaizen,Eisuke Tsunoda,Takaaki Enoki,Kihachirō Uemura,Masatô Ibu,Riho Makise,Akira Emoto,Ken Watanabeand 10 more

Director

Mitsuyuki Yakushiji

Writer

Mitsuyuki Yakushiji,Kôhei Tsuka

Producer

Haruki Kadokawa,Kazuyoshi Okuyama

Cinematography

Takeshi Hamada

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0101403