Limited series
Song of the Samurai
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Yuki Yamada
Toshizo Hijikata
8 eps
Nobuyuki Suzuki
Isamu Kondo
8 eps
Kanata Hosoda
Souji Okita
8 eps
Aoi Nakamura
Keisuke Yamanami
8 eps
Shuhei Uesugi
Shinpachi Nakagura
8 eps
Kisetsu Fujiwara
Hajime Saitou
8 eps
Yosuke Sugino
Eisaburou Abiru
8 eps
Shuntaro Yanagi
Sanosuke Harada
8 eps
Shuto Miyazaki
Heisuke Toudou
8 eps
Ryôji Nakamura
Genzaburou Inoue
8 eps
Go Ayano
Kamo Serizawa
8 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Song of the Samurai actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Song of the Samurai reads strongest on Bingeability, Character Depth and Serialized.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Follows the Shinsengumi samurai corps during late-Edo period Kyoto, centered on former street fighter Hijikata Toshizo and his brotherhood with Kondo Isami and Okita Soji as loyalty, betrayal, and war test them.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Akira MoriiProducer
- Mamoru InoueProducer
- Kazuya ShimomuraProducer
Writing
- Shinya UmemuraWriter
- Masaaki SakaiWriter
Direction
- Kazutaka WatanabeDirector
Where to watch
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