The year is 1863 and as Japan's long festering wounds of political discord erupt into violent waves of street clashes and murder, the Tokugawa Shogunate sends a new force of masterless samurai called the Roshigumi to the aid of the Aizu forces in Kyoto. However the new "police" are anything but a cohesive force and assassination has already split them into two opposing factions. The stronger is led by the brutal Serizawa Kamo and the lesser by the more honorable but less assertive Isami Kondo. It is into this pack of wolves that Ryunosuke Ibuki is dragged by the rabid Serizawa. Forced to be a virtual slave by blood debt, he hates the samurai and everything they stand for. But as he sees how the other half of the samurai live, he begins to believe that there may still be a chance, for both himself and Japan, if only Kondo will step up and take down the mad dog Serizawa! (Source: Sentai Filmworks)

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Ryuunosuke Ibuki

Tomokazu Seki

Toshizou Hijikata

Shinichirou Miki

Sanosuke Harada

Kouji Yusa

Shinpachi Nagakura

Tomohiro Tsuboi

Kamo Serizawa

Jouji Nakata

Hajime Saitou

Kousuke Toriumi

Souji Okita

Shoutarou Morikubo

Heisuke Toudou

Hiroyuki Yoshino

Isami Kondou

Tooru Ookawa

Susumu Yamazaki

Takayuki Suzuki

Chikage Kazama

Kenjirou Tsuda

Genzaburou Inoue

Norio Kobayashi