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  1. Yoshimura Kanichiro (played by Kiichi Nakai) appears to be a money-grabbing and emotional swordsman from the northern area known as Nambu Morioka. The main storyline is set during the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate, but it is told in a series of flashbacks as Saitō and another man reminisce. The themes include conflicting loyalty to the clan ...

  2. Yoshimura Kanichiro (. 吉村貫一郎. ) Kanichiro YOSHIMURA (1840 - January 27, 1868) He was from the Morioka clan. Member of Shinsengumi (Shoshitoriatsukaiyaku and Kansatsu (Shinsengumi 's organizational post for investigating movements of the opponents and keeping the Shinsengumi members under control), grand master of swordsman).

  3. Summaries. A samurai goes to extraordinary lengths to provide for his family. Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on the the low pay he receives from his small town clan, he is forced by the love for his family to leave for the city in search of higher pay to support them.

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    Movie:When the Last Sword Is Drawn
    Romaji:Mibu gishi den
    Japanese:壬生義士伝
    Director: Yojiro Takita

    At the close of the Edo period in Kyoto, among newly recruited members of the Shinsengumi, there is one man who shows outstanding skill as a swordsman. His name is Kanichiro Yoshimura. At that time in the imperial capital, the Shinsengumi, widely known as a group of patriotic samurai whose duty was to guard and defend Kyoto, is making a name for it...

  4. Yoshimura Kanichiro instead draws his wakizashi and charges into the guns with only his two swords, disappearing into the gunsmoke as Saitou Hajime, wounded in the leg, screams for him not to die. It was the last time Saitou ever saw him.

  5. In Bakumatsu, Yoshimura Kanichiro joins the Shinsengumi from Nambu Morioka. In the world of the samurai where honour is valued and death not feared, he strongly wished to survive, and fought for money. Pretext, authority, honour. He did not care for these things. He bluntly lived for those whom he loved.

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  7. Dec 14, 2004 · The end of an era takes an era to end in Yojiro Takita's torturously overlong samurai epic, When The Last Sword Is Drawn. Kiichi Nakai stars as Kanichiro Yoshimura, a clan-hopping warrior who ...

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