Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Youthful Days in Edo

Synopsis

A live-action adaptation that translates this deep legacy to the screen. Set in Kyoto at the end of the Edo period, the story depicts the intense and passionate lives of the Shinsengumi - the iconic samurai force that defended Kyoto in the final years of Japan's shogunate - through spectacular action and a bold interpretation based on historical facts. The story follows street brawler Toshizo Hijikata (Yuki Yamada), who finds a new kind of family in Isami Kondo and Soji Okita. Hijikata and his comrades in the Shinsengumi forge a bond of loyalty - tested by betrayal, illness, and war - as they fight not only their enemies but their own ideals.

Streaming on

• TBS↗

Top of the call sheet

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  Yuki Yamada
  as Toshizo Hijikata
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  Nobuyuki Suzuki
  as Isamu Kondo
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  Aoi Nakamura
  as Keisuke Yamanami
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  Kanata Hosoda
  as Souji Okita
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  Shuhei Uesugi
  as Shinpachi Nagakura

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