The Ambitious

The Restoration of Meiji

The Ambitious — Plot

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was despised by supporters of the Shogun as well as the Loyalists for desiring the opening of Japan to the West in order to learn its technology, in the hopes of one day defeating the West with a modern army and navy.

• Release date
• February 14, 1970
• Runtime
• 120 min
• Genres
• Action, Adventure, Drama
• Director
• Daisuke Itō

The Ambitious — Cast

Kinnosuke Nakamura Ryoma Sakamoto Toshirō Mifune Shojiro Goto Keiju Kobayashi Yoshinosuke Saigo Tatsuya Nakadai Shintaro Nakaoka Sayuri Yoshinaga Oryo

K

Katsuo Nakamura Chojiro Kondo Noboru Nakaya Hanheita Takeichi

E

Eitarō Matsuyama Umanosuke Shinmiya