A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
幕末純情伝
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.
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Ken Watanabe
as Ryoma Sakamoto
Tetta Sugimoto
as Toshizo Hijikata
Kenjirou Ishimaru
as Toshimichi Okubo
Kazuya Kimura
as Izo Okada
Isao Takeno
Akio Kaneda
Masatô Ibu
as Isamu Kondo
Naomi Zaizen
as Miyuki
Yoneko Matsukane
as Otose
Kippei Shiina
Rakkyo Ide
Riho Makise
as Soji Okita
Akira Emoto
as Kogoro Katsura
Takaaki Enoki
as Katamori Matsudaira
Masahiko Tsugawa
as Tomomi Iwakura
Kinzō Sakura
as Saigo Takamori
