A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era

Drama, Comedy · 1991

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.

Starring

Kazuyoshi Okuyama, Ken Watanabe, Riho Makise, Haruki Kadokawa, Tetta Sugimoto, Takeshi Hamada, Ryouichi Kuniyoshi, Masatō Ibu, Naomi Zaizen, Kôhei Tsuka

Director

Mitsuyuki Yakushiji

Producer

Haruki Kadokawa