Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Youthful Days in Edo

Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Youthful Days in Edo

TV-MA 2026 · 1 season · 2 eps · ★ 9.2 · Action & Adventure

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A live-action adaptation that translates this deep legacy to the screen. Set in Kyoto at the end of the Edo period, the story depicts the intense and passionate lives of the Shinsengumi - the iconic samurai force that defended Kyoto in the final years of Japan's shogunate - through spectacular action and a bold interpretation based on historical facts. The story follows street brawler Toshizo Hijikata (Yuki Yamada), who finds a new kind of family in Isami Kondo and Soji Okita. Hijikata and his comrades in the Shinsengumi forge a bond of loyalty - tested by betrayal, illness, and war - as they fight not only their enemies but their own ideals.

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Yuki Yamada Toshizo Hijikata
Nobuyuki Suzuki Isamu Kondo
Aoi Nakamura Keisuke Yamanami
Kanata Hosoda Souji Okita
Shuhei Uesugi Shinpachi Nagakura
Kisetsu Fujiwara Hajime Saitou
Yosuke Sugino Eisaburou Abiru
Shuntaro Yanagi Sanosuke Harada
Shuto Miyazaki Heisuke Toudou
Ryôji Nakamura Genzaburou Inoue
Go Ayano Kamo Serizawa

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