Chosyu Five (2006)

6.0/10 119 min History Drama

Overview

Fictionalised account of the story of the he Chōshū Five (長州五傑 Chōshū Goketsu) who travelled to and studied in Britain in 1863 while Japan was still under sakoku (鎖国 "locked country").

Cast

Ryuhei Matsuda

Yozo Yamao

Tetsu Kayama

Masaru Inoue (Yakichi Nomura)

Akifumi Miura

Hirofumi Ito

Susumu Terajima

Takaaki Enoki

Daijirō Harada

Shigeru Izumiya

Yukiya Kitamura

Nozomu Masuzawa

Gotaro Tsunashima

Kenichi Yajima

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