3 Films & TV Shows Set In Japan During The 1880s

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  Unforgiven

  Hokkaido Prefecture The 1880s

  Set in Hokkaido, Japan in the 1880s. Jubei Kamata (Ken Watanabe), who is on the side of the Edo shogunate government, kills many people. His name is infamous in Kyoto. When the battle at Goryoukaku is about to be finished, Jubei disappears. 10 years later, Jubei lives with his kid in relative peace. He is barely able to make a living. Protecting his dead wife's grave, Jubei has decided to never pick up a sword again, but due to poverty he has no choice but to pick the sword again. Jubei becomes a bounty hunter.

  Released in 2013 • 135 minutes
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  Flame of My Love

  Tokyo Prefecture The 1880s

  A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government.

  Released in 1949 • 84 minutes
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  Sanshiro Sugata Part Two

  Kanagawa Prefecture The 1880s

  In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the foreign warrior.

  Released in 1945 • 83 minutes