Sonno Joi

4.5

For nearly 300 years, Japan had been hermetically sealed to the outside world. When, in that pivotal year of 1854, the American Admiral Perry took the direct approach that the Dutch had been unwilling to take, the ruling Shogun knew that the dynasty was over. As the shogun began to open up to the outside world, the Sonno Joi movement called for this to be reversed...

Cast

Denjirō Ōkōchi
Unknown
Tamitaro Onoe
Unknown
Haruko Sawamura
Unknown
Kaichi Yamamoto
Tokugawa Nariaki
Jūrō Tanizaki
Unknown
Tokihiko Okada
Unknown
Takeo Katsura
Unknown
Kōichi Katsuragi
Unknown
Shirō Niizuma
Unknown

Crew

Tomiyasu Ikeda
Director, Screenplay

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