Plot
After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate retreated to the north where they actually started a sovereign nation that was recognized by more than one European country. Survivors of the Shinsengumi were among the followers of Enomoto Takeaki who took them to the northernmost island of Ezo where they fought their final battle at the star shaped fort, Goryokaku. The Japanese Civil Wars fought in the name of the emperor signaled the complete end of the feudal system and Japan’s entry into the modern world as those brave samurai tried to halt progress and learned that the age of modern warfare and weaponry had passed them by. Swords were no match for rifles and cannons, nor was any man a match for the power of the imperial flag. Japanese loyalty to the emperor has long defined the nation and culture despite the changing times.
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Cast
Kotaro Satomi
Takeaki Enomoto
Isao Natsuyagi
Kondo Isami
Yukiyo Toake
Tetsuya Watari
Toshizo Hijikata
Yuko Asano
Hisaya Morishige
Masahiko Tsugawa
Katsu Kaishu
Hiroshi Tachi
Tomokazu Miura
Hironobu Nomura
Takayuki Sakazume
Morio Kazama
Masatoshi Nakamura
Takahiro Tamura
Hiroshi Fujioka
Go Wakabayashi
Tetsuo Ishidate
Kaori Takahashi
Takehiro Murata
Eiichiro Funakoshi
Raita Ryu
Hideo Takamatsu
Yoshie Minami
Mieko Yuki
Teruhiko Saigō
Yuki Matsumura
Taisaku Akino
Eitarō Matsuyama
Shôji Ishibashi
Tappei Shimokawa
Miyoko Akaza
Claude Ciari
Masumi Okada
Teruhiko Aoi
Takayuki Godai
Shogen Nitta
Hirotaro Honda
Yoshiko Kuga
Masakazu Arai
Yoshiro Ichikawa
Takashi Inoue
Hirokazu Inoue
Gō Ibuki
Shinichi Uchida
Seiji Endō
Ryuji Katagiri
Kuniomi Kitani
Hiroyuki Kinoshita
Kozo Kotani
Shunji Sasaki
Jinya Sato
Takaya Shimoyama
Jiro Shirai
Masaaki Daimon
Kenji Takaoka
