Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate


Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate is a 1957 black-and-white Japanese film comedy directed by Yūzō Kawashima with a screenplay by Kawashima, Shōhei Imamura and Keiichi Tanaka. It was voted the fifth best Japanese film of all time in a poll of 140 Japanese critics and filmmakers conducted by the magazine Kinema Junpo in 1999.

Plot

It is set during the last days of the Shogunate in the mid 19th century. Saheiji seeks to outwit the inhabitants of a brothel in order to survive in straitened times. A group of samurai meanwhile seek to destroy any foreigners that cross their path.

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