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| | Mibu gishiden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Saito and Ono take turns reminiscing about their experiences, and the film flashes back 30 years to the tumultuous beginnings of the Meiji era, when the emperor, bent on modernization, consolidated his power, and the shogunate with its samurai was phased out. |
 | | Saito remembers Yoshimura as a fellow member of the Shinsegumi, a samurai group divided between loyalty to its shogun and the defense of the emperor. |
 | | Saito looked down on the money-grubbing, shabbily dressed Yoshimura from the moment they met, and even decided to kill him. |
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