Here, at the Gates of Sakurada, the Shogunate will fall.
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate and responsible for their misfortune.
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Toshirō Mifune
Tsuruchiyo Niiro
