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title: 'Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate (1957)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Yuzo Kawashima'
released: '1957-01-01'
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'Japan'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/sun-in-the-last-days-of-the-shogunate-1957'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050162/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate (1957)

1957 · Comedy · Japan

Original title: 幕末太陽伝

## Synopsis

Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate , also known as A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era, is a 1957 Japanese comedy film directed by Yūzō Kawashima and written by Kawashima, Shōhei 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Yuzo Kawashima](https://cinepixo.com/people/yuzo-kawashima)
- **Screenplay:** [Yuzo Kawashima](https://cinepixo.com/people/yuzo-kawashima), [Shohei Imamura](https://cinepixo.com/people/shohei-imamura)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Toshiro Mayuzumi](https://cinepixo.com/people/toshiro-mayuzumi)

## Cast

- [Yūjirō Ishihara](https://cinepixo.com/people/yujiro-ishihara)
- [Masumi Okada](https://cinepixo.com/people/masumi-okada)
- [Hideaki Nitani](https://cinepixo.com/people/hideaki-nitani)
- [Sachiko Hidari](https://cinepixo.com/people/sachiko-hidari)
- [Akira Kobayashi](https://cinepixo.com/people/akira-kobayashi)
- [Kō Nishimura](https://cinepixo.com/people/ko-nishimura)
- [Frankie Sakai](https://cinepixo.com/people/frankie-sakai)
- [Tomio Aoki](https://cinepixo.com/people/tomio-aoki)
- [Nobuo Kaneko](https://cinepixo.com/people/nobuo-kaneko)
- [Shoichi Ozawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/shoichi-ozawa)
- [Taiji Tonoyama](https://cinepixo.com/people/taiji-tonoyama)
- [Yōko Minamida](https://cinepixo.com/people/yoko-minamida)

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