Best Bakumatsu
Tenchu! is a 1969 Japanese historical drama directed by Hideo Gosha and set in the Bakumatsu, the turbulent final years of the Tokugawa shogunate. Its title means 'heavenly punishment,' a phrase linked to loyalists who used political violence against shogunate officials and perceived collaborators....
Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor (Bakumatsu) is a 1969 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Tai Kato. The film chronicles the history of the Shinsengumi, a pro-shogunate special police force active in Kyoto during the final turbulent years of the Tokugawa shogunate in the 1860s. It stars Toshiro Mifun...
A 2021 Japanese period film tracing the early formation of the Shinsengumi, centering on Isami Kondo and his companions as they forge the bonds that make them the shogunate's feared enforcers.
Takashi Miike's 2004 Japanese film about an executed Meiji-era assassin resurrected as an unstoppable supernatural killer who cuts down warriors, officials, and gods across time.
