The movie officially cranked up on April 27. (If you just want to read about Okita, click the link here and skip to the end. Anyway, you can decide if you want to skip any parts. Moeyo Ken is predominantly about Hijikata 3, with Kondo and Okita as major secondary characters. ?) While there are other interesting characters in the Shinsengumi, they were more like background characters in the novel. There are major spoilers on what happened to them. The second talks about the main characters, specifically the trio. In order to keep the spoilers to a minimum, the plot I did include might be a bit vague. The first is a brief background of the era, including some details of the story itself. So while the Shinsengumi story is more straightforward, it might be helpful to have some background before watching Moeyo Ken. I watched that movie and ended up spending a good hour on Wikipedia trying to make sense who’s who ?. Harada also adapted and directed 2 Sekigahara (2017), another Shiba novel about the rise of the Tokugawa shogunate. Serizawa Kamo (Ito Hideaki) - The original Commander of the Shinsengumi.(Also Hijikata & Okita are rather popular ships.
Okita Souji (Yamada Ryosuke) - Captain of the First Unit and kind of like Hijikata and Kondo’s little brother.Kondo Isami (Suzuki Ryohei) - Commander and Hijikata’s childhood friend.Oyuki (Shibasaki Kou) - Hijikata’s one true love a widow from Edo who followed her late (unnamed) husband to Kyoto.Originally from Hino, near Edo (Tokyo’s former name). Hijikata Toshizo (Okada Junichi) - “Demon” Vice Commander.They only announced the cast for 5 key characters as of end of April 2019: Moeyo Ken, a 2-volume historical novel about Hijikata Toshizo and the Shinsengumi, written by Shiba Ryotaro 1 will be adapted into a 2020 movie directed by Harada Masato. One good thing about a book/manga adaptation is that you can read the story right away, spend the next few months contemplating how certain scenes will be adapted, getting hyped while reading about people saying how the casting is all wrong, and then hopefully not be disappointed when the movie inevitably end up being different from your imagination! Moeyo Ken (Burn! O Sword!) - Novel Recap 1