The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was despised by supporters of the Shogun as well as the Loyalists for desiring the opening of Japan to the West in order to learn its technology, in the hopes of one day defeating the West with a modern army and navy.

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Kinnosuke Nakamura

Ryoma Sakamoto

Toshirō Mifune

Shojiro Goto

Keiju Kobayashi

Yoshinosuke Saigo

Tatsuya Nakadai

Shintaro Nakaoka

Sayuri Yoshinaga

Oryo

Katsuo Nakamura

Chojiro Kondo

Noboru Nakaya

Hanheita Takeichi

Shigeru Kōyama

Kaishu Katsu

Shinsuke Mikimoto

Kogoro Katsura

Akihiko Katayama

Toranosuke Nakahira

Terumi Niki

Mitsukazu Nakadaira

Isao Yamagata

Hiroe Yamada