Fall of the Shogun's Militia (1954)
Original title: 新選組鬼隊長
Fall of the Shogun's Militia is a 1954 Japanese-language history movie directed by Toshikazu Kono, with a running time of 1h 54m. It stars Chiezo Kataoka, Kinnosuke Nakamura and Chizuru Kitagawa.
Kondo Isami, the “Devil” commander of the Shinsengumi was one of Japan’s greatest national heroes and a peerless swordsman who devoted his life to protecting the shogun and fighting on the side of the Tokugawa. This tells the story of the Shinsengumi starting at the moment of their greatest triumph through the final battles as the Tokugawa shogunate was brought down.
Cast
- Chiezo Kataoka as Kondo Isami
- Kinnosuke Nakamura as Okita Soji
- Chizuru Kitagawa
- Yuriko Tashiro as Aguri
- Shinobu Chihara
- Chiyonosuke Azuma as Tokugawa Yoshinobu
- Kensaku Hara as Hijikata Toshizo
- Kazuo Ishii
- Kodayu Ichikawa as Mizuno Izumi-no-kami
- Kyoji Sugi as Ryusai
- Kunio Kaga as Yamanami Keisuke
- Sugisaku Aoyama as Sato Hikogoro