Name: The Ambitious
Genre: action, adventure, drama
Released: 1970
Duration: 120
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura, Toshirō Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Sayuri Yoshinaga

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.

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Daisuke Itō
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Ryōtarō Shiba
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Daisuke Itō
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Ryoma Sakamoto

Kinnosuke Nakamura
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Shojiro Goto

Toshirō Mifune
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Yoshinosuke Saigo

Keiju Kobayashi
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Shintaro Nakaoka

Tatsuya Nakadai
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Oryo

Sayuri Yoshinaga
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Chojiro Kondo

Katsuo Nakamura
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Hanheita Takeichi

Noboru Nakaya
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Umanosuke Shinmiya

Eitarō Matsuyama
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Kaishu Katsu

Shigeru Kōyama
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Kogoro Katsura

Shinsuke Mikimoto
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Toranosuke Nakahira

Akihiko Katayama
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Mitsukazu Nakadaira

Terumi Niki
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Hiroe Yamada

Isao Yamagata
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Tabun Iegami

Ryuichi Nagashima
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Gaku Yamamoto

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