Amba Tengu Tsurumi Shunsuke Selection 3 (P+D)

[Machine Translation] As Edo turned into Tokyo, the feudal lords retreated to their homes and the nighttime streets were deserted. The city's nightlife was deserted. The government forces were ruthless, using their banners as shields. The film also depicts in detail the people stirring in the interstices of the times, such as an old samurai trying to become a martyr to the shogunate and a young wife waiting for her husband who had gone to Hakodate to fight in the Hakodate War and never returned home. One night, Kurama Tengu, who has become a commoner, is attacked by a patrolling samurai, and becomes embroiled in an unexpected incident. This is the third in the series of masterpieces selected by the critic Shunsuke Tsurumi from the masterpiece of historical fiction, "Kurama Tengu".

江戸が東京に変わると大名たちは国許へひきあげ、夜の街にはひと気が消えた。傍若無人な浪人たちや錦旗を楯にして横暴な官軍。また幕府に殉じようとする老武士や函館戦争へ参じて帰らぬ夫を待つ若い妻など時代の狭間に蠢く人々が仔細に描かれる。そんな折、市井の人となった鞍馬天狗は、ある夜、巡邏の者に襲われ、思わぬ事件に巻きこまれる。時代小説の名作「鞍馬天狗」から、評論家・鶴見俊輔が厳選した傑作シリーズの第三弾。