Last Days of Edo

It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in the first year of the Meiji period.

Cast

Tsumasaburō Bandō

as Katsu Kaishū

Ryōsuke Kagawa

as Okubo

Takashi Shimura

as Enomoto

Kensaku Hara

as Torataro Tsukamoto

Jotaro Togami

as Tetsutaro Yamaoka

Kichijirō Ueda

as Yasunosuke Masumi

Utako Tamaki

as Shizuyo, Katsu's wife

Keisukê Ôshima

as Kenji Osawa

Hiroshi Mizuno

as Isenokami Takahashi

Gorō Kawabe

as Hayato Mukaiyama

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