Bakumatsu refers to the final years of the Edo period when the Tokugawa shogunate ended, essentially bringing the finale to the samurai era of dominance. The period has been drawing the attention of Japanese cinema for decades, with a plethora of movies about the whole concept (Rurouni Kenshin is one of the most recent for example) particularly regarding the Shinsengumi. Chika Hashimoto presents a completely different take on the two concepts, by focusing her story on Hana Yamada, a girl who works in an office in modern Japan, but after a hit in the head, she finds herself in 1863 Edo.
Bakumatsu Heroz is screening at Japan FilmFest Hamburg
Hana does about the period from visual novels, images of which appear throughout the movie, but to her astonishment, she finds herself hanging out with famous samurai like Ryoma Sakamoto, who was actually an enemy of the Shinsengumi, and some of the...
Bakumatsu Heroz is screening at Japan FilmFest Hamburg
Hana does about the period from visual novels, images of which appear throughout the movie, but to her astonishment, she finds herself hanging out with famous samurai like Ryoma Sakamoto, who was actually an enemy of the Shinsengumi, and some of the...
- 8/27/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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