Kondo Isami, the “Devil” commander of the Shinsengumi was one of Japan’s greatest national heroes and a peerless swordsman who devoted his life to protecting the shogun and fighting on the side of the Tokugawa. This tells the story of the Shinsengumi starting at the moment of their greatest triumph through the final battles as the Tokugawa shogunate was brought down.

• Toei Company
• Chiezō Kataoka
• Kinnosuke Nakamura
• Chizuru Kitagawa
• Yuriko Tashiro
• Shinobu Chihara
• Chiyonosuke Azuma
• Kensaku Hara
• Kazuo Ishii