Shinsengumi

19691969
2h 2m

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6.9/10

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Feudal Japan. Kamo Serizawa and Isami Kondo turn a collection of student fencers into a band of assassins known as the Shinsen Group, devoted to the Tokugawa shogunate and to an elegant code... Read allFeudal Japan. Kamo Serizawa and Isami Kondo turn a collection of student fencers into a band of assassins known as the Shinsen Group, devoted to the Tokugawa shogunate and to an elegant code of action and behavior. Kondo leads the band against the forces of the Emperor in hopes o... Read allFeudal Japan. Kamo Serizawa and Isami Kondo turn a collection of student fencers into a band of assassins known as the Shinsen Group, devoted to the Tokugawa shogunate and to an elegant code of action and behavior. Kondo leads the band against the forces of the Emperor in hopes of preventing his restoration to the throne.

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

420

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

52,832

54,839

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Junko Ikeuchi and Rentarô Mikuni in Shinsengumi (1969)

Toshirô Mifune and Keiju Kobayashi in Shinsengumi (1969)

Toshirô Mifune and Junko Ikeuchi in Shinsengumi (1969)

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This film is part of the jidaigeki (period drama) genre, and it is also a chanbara (sword-fighting) film.

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Solid historical drama where swordplay takes a second seat but is never absent for long

Produced by Mifune's production company with Hiroshi Inagaki supervising proceedings (in a kind of movie he could make with eyes closed), SHINSENGUMI is a typical, big-budget retelling of a classic Japanese story, but one which, unlike Chusingura, has significantly more relevance to contemporary history and the western world. A sprawling two-hour historical drama, ably, at times even impressively, directed, well acted (Toshiro Mifune practically guarantees that), with an emphasis on the political machinations between Loyalists and Shogunate supporters rather than swordplay, but still broken with sudden bursts of messy violence and bookended with blood spraying on the camera, SHINSENGUMI should be an essential viewing to all lovers of jidaigeki. Possibly even the definitive version of the story.

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