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Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Fateful Showdown in Kyoto
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Yuki Yamada
Toshizo Hijikata
6 eps
Nobuyuki Suzuki
Isamu Kondo
6 eps
Kanata Hosoda
Souji Okita
6 eps
Aoi Nakamura
Keisuke Yamanami
6 eps
Shuhei Uesugi
Shinpachi Nakagura
6 eps
Kisetsu Fujiwara
Hajime Saitou
6 eps
Yosuke Sugino
Eisaburou Abiru
6 eps
Shuntaro Yanagi
Sanosuke Harada
6 eps
Shuto Miyazaki
Heisuke Toudou
6 eps
Ryôji Nakamura
Genzaburou Inoue
6 eps
Go Ayano
Kamo Serizawa
6 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Fateful Showdown in Kyoto actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Fateful Showdown in Kyoto reads strongest on Bingeability, Serialized and Spectacle.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
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
Kyoto in the late Edo period. Amidst the intrigue and betrayal swirling within the Mibu Roshigumi, Hijikata Toshizo resolves to become a "demon," caught between friendship and duty. The internal conflict with the tyrant Serizawa Kamo escalates into a life-or-death struggle for his comrades, eventually leading to the final battle in Shimabara. And with that, the age of the sword comes to an end…
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Akira MoriiProducer
- Mamoru InoueProducer
- Kazuya ShimomuraProducer
Direction
- Yosuke OkudaDirector
- Kazutaka WatanabeDirector
Music
- Yoshiaki DewaOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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