Chosyu Five
Oct 22 2006
•2h 59m
•History, Drama
Fictionalised account of the story of the he Chōshū Five (長州五傑 Chōshū Goketsu) who travelled to and studied in Britain in 1863 while Japan was still under sakoku (鎖国 "locked country").
Cast
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Ryuhei Matsuda
Yozo Yamao
Tetsu Kayama
Masaru Inoue (Yakichi Nomura)
Akifumi Miura
Hirofumi Ito
Susumu Terajima
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