Miniseries · TBS
Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Youthful Days in Edo
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Yuki Yamada
Toshizo Hijikata
2 eps
Nobuyuki Suzuki
Isamu Kondo
2 eps
Aoi Nakamura
Keisuke Yamanami
2 eps
Kanata Hosoda
Souji Okita
2 eps
Shuhei Uesugi
Shinpachi Nagakura
2 eps
Kisetsu Fujiwara
Hajime Saitou
2 eps
Yosuke Sugino
Eisaburou Abiru
2 eps
Shuntaro Yanagi
Sanosuke Harada
2 eps
Shuto Miyazaki
Heisuke Toudou
2 eps
Ryôji Nakamura
Genzaburou Inoue
2 eps
Go Ayano
Kamo Serizawa
2 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Youthful Days in Edo actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Youthful Days in Edo 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.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
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
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.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Akira MoriiProducer
- Mamoru InoueProducer
- Kazuya ShimomuraProducer
Direction
- Kazutaka WatanabeDirector
Music
- Yoshiaki DewaOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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