The Ambitious
Bakumatsu
The Restoration of Meiji
The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was despised by supporters of the Shogun as well as the Loyalists for desiring the opening of Japan to the West in order to learn its technology, in the hopes of one day defeating the West with a modern army and navy.
Direction
Screenplay
Cast
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Ryoma Sakamoto
Toshirō Mifune
Shojiro Goto
Keiju Kobayashi
Yoshinosuke Saigo
Tatsuya Nakadai
Shintaro Nakaoka
Sayuri Yoshinaga
Oryo
Katsuo Nakamura
Chojiro Kondo
Noboru Nakaya
Hanheita Takeichi
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Eitarô Matsuyama
Umanosuke Shinmiya
Shigeru Kôyama
Kaishu Katsu
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Shinsuke Mikimoto
Kogoro Katsura
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Masaru Satō
Composer
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Kazuo Yamada
Cinematographer