In the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, there was a cute warrior, Souji Okita, who belonged to the armed police of the shogunate in Kyoto. Very few knew that Souji was not a boy, but a woman. Souji loved the vice-leader of the armed police, Toshizou Hijikata. Souji suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis and coughed up blood during a battle. Toshizou helped her but said that he did not care for the girl with a smell of blood. Souji had a real talent for swordsmanship and no one but Ryouma Sakamoto could compete with her. Ryouma was a liberal intellectual and tried to carry out a revolution without blood. However, the bloody Meiji Restoration broke out and Souji killed Ryouma who lost his dream. Because a friendship had sprung up between Toshizou and Ryouma, Toshizou got angry and slashed at Souji with a sword. Unwillingly, she unsheathed her sword and thought that she might get love if she was killed by the man she loved.
Directed by Mitsuyuki Yakushiji
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Cast
Ken Watanabe
Ryoma Sakamoto
Riho Makise
Soji Okita
Tetta Sugimoto
Toshizo Hijikata
Masatô Ibu
Isamu Kondo
Naomi Zaizen
Miyuki
Akira Emoto
Kogoro Katsura
Takaaki Enoki
Katamori Matsudaira
Masahiko Tsugawa
Tomomi Iwakura
Kenjirou Ishimaru
Toshimichi Okubo
Kinzō Sakura
Saigo Takamori
Yoneko Matsukane
Otose
Kazuya Kimura
Izo Okada
Toshiya Ito
Hanjiro Nakamura
Eisuke Tsunoda
Genzaburo Inoue
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