Shinsengumi shimatsuki

19631963
1h 33m

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

196

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Action Drama

As change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of respect for their leader and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his involvement goes, reality and id... Read allAs change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of respect for their leader and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his involvement goes, reality and idealism come into deadly conflict.As change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of respect for their leader and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his involvement goes, reality and idealism come into deadly conflict.

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

196

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Director
- Kenji Misumi
Writers
- Kan Shimozawa(based on the novel by)
- Seiji Hoshikawa(screenplay)
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6/10

Who Can You Trust?

Raizo Ichikawa joins the Shinsengumi, the elite military police force established by the Shogunate in 1863. It isn't just a matter of police work. Despite the high-minded and oppressive rules, there's corruption and opposition from the clans, particularly the Chosu clan, which had been exiled from the imperial court. Who can be trusted?

Kenji Misumi's movie is a constant whirlwind of fighting, bleeding, and corpses strewn before a backdrop of beauty. There is no time for more than elementary character exposition. Given Ichikawa's star persona, that wasn't considered a necessity. He played a good samurai in a corrupt world. He knew he was starring in high-class progammers. He had come out of kabuki, and noted " In Kabuki you're no good unless you're old. In film you're no good once you're old. While I'm still young I'll make a living in film, once I've gotten older I'll try kabuki again."

He never got old. He died in 1969 of cancer. He was only 37 when he died, a veteran of more than 150 movies in a 14-year film career.

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