The Shinsengumi were a group of swordsmen employed by the Tokugawa shogunate. The group was created during the crisis period of the late Edo period when some groups in Japan wanted to overthrow the shogunate and return the emperor to a more central position. The Shinsengumi's initial name was "Ronin of Mibu" from which the title of the film was derived. Mibu happens to be a town where the group was formed.
Kaichirô Yoshimura:
I can't leave the father I loved to cross the River of Death alone.
Japanese
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