Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate

Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate or , Bakumatsu taiyden? is a 1957 blackandwhite Japanese film comedy directed by Yuzo Kawashima with a screenplay by Kawashima, Shhei Imamura and Keiichi Tanaka. It was voted the fifth best Japanese film of all time in a poll of 140 Japanese critics and filmmakers conducted by the magazine Kinema Junpo in 1999.

Parallels are drawn between the world of the samurai and the world of Kawashimas Japan. The hypocrisy surrounding prostitution, about to be outlawed in Japan at that time in 1950s Japan, the abuse of power, and financial greed at a time of crisis, are all assayed.

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