Goryokaku
30/12/1988
After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate retreated to the north where they actually started a sovereign nation that was recognized by more than one European country. Survivors of the Shinsengumi were among the followers of Enomoto Takeaki who took them to the northernmost island of Ezo where they fought their final battle at the star shaped fort, Goryokaku. The Japanese Civil Wars fought in the name of the emperor signaled the complete end of the feudal system and Japan’s entry into the modern world as those brave samurai tried to halt progress and learned that the age of modern warfare and weaponry had passed them by. Swords were no match for rifles and cannons, nor was any man a match for the power of the imperial flag. Japanese loyalty to the emperor has long defined the nation and culture despite the changing times.
Movie Information
Kōtarō Satomi
as Takeaki Enomoto
Isao Natsuyagi
as Kondo Isami
Yukiyo Toake
as
Tetsuya Watari
as Toshizo Hijikata
Yuko Asano
as
Hisaya Morishige
as
Masahiko Tsugawa
as Katsu Kaishu
Hiroshi Tachi
as
Tomokazu Miura
as
Hironobu Nomura
as
Takayuki Sakazume
as
Morio Kazama
as
Masatoshi Nakamura
as
Takahiro Tamura
as
Hiroshi Fujioka
as
Go Wakabayashi
as
Tetsuo Ishidate
as
Kaori Takahashi
as
Takehiro Murata
as
Eiichiro Funakoshi
as
Raita Ryu
as
Hideo Takamatsu
as
Yoshie Minami
as
Mieko Yuki
as
Teruhiko Saigō
as
Yuki Matsumura
as
Taisaku Akino
as
Eitarō Matsuyama
as
Shōji Ishibashi
as
Tappei Shimokawa
as
Miyoko Akaza
as
Claude Ciari
as
Masumi Okada
as
Teruhiko Aoi
as
Takayuki Godai
as
Shogen Nitta
as
Hirotaro Honda
as
Yoshiko Kuga
as
Masakazu Arai
as
Yoshiro Ichikawa
as
Takashi Inoue
as
Hirokazu Inoue
as
Gō Ibuki
as
Shinichi Uchida
as
Seiji Endō
as
Ryuji Katagiri
as
Kuniomi Kitani
as
Hiroyuki Kinoshita
as
Kozo Kotani
as
Shunji Sasaki
as
Jinya Sato
as
Takaya Shimoyama
as
Jiro Shirai
as
Masaaki Daimon
as
Kenji Takaoka
as
