A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era

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.

Cast

Ken Watanabe

Ken Watanabe

as Ryoma Sakamoto

Riho Makise

Riho Makise

as Soji Okita

Tetta Sugimoto

Tetta Sugimoto

as Toshizo Hijikata

Masatô Ibu

Masatô Ibu

as Isamu Kondo

Naomi Zaizen

Naomi Zaizen

as Miyuki

Akira Emoto

Akira Emoto

as Kogoro Katsura

Takaaki Enoki

Takaaki Enoki

as Katamori Matsudaira

Masahiko Tsugawa

Masahiko Tsugawa

as Tomomi Iwakura

Kenjirou Ishimaru

Kenjirou Ishimaru

as Toshimichi Okubo

Kinzō Sakura

Kinzō Sakura

as Saigo Takamori

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