Sonno Joi

For nearly 300 years, Japan had been hermetically sealed to the outside world. When, in that pivotal year of 1854, the American Admiral Perry took the direct approach that the Dutch had been unwilling to take, the ruling Shogun knew that the dynasty was over. As the shogun began to open up to the outside world, the Sonno Joi movement called for this to be reversed...

Denjirō Ōkōchi

Tamitaro Onoe

Haruko Sawamura

Kaichi Yamamoto

Tokugawa Nariaki

Jūrō Tanizaki

Tokihiko Okada

Takeo Katsura

Kōichi Katsuragi

Shirō Niizuma

• Tomiyasu IkedaScreenplay · Director

Release date

October 1, 1927

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese