Chiruran: Shinsengumi Requiem is brilliant!
My quest to find the best live-action adaptations of manga continues with a drama that I have very much been looking forward to. Chiruren: Shinsengumi Requiem - Kyoto Kessen Hen, based on the entertaining manga written by mangaka Shinya Umemura and illustrated by the great Eiji Hashimoto, had a lot going for it before I even began watching it. For example, it had a fantastic cast led by a couple of my all-time favourite actors in Yuki Yamada and Go Ayano. Then you have a great supporting cast that features the likes of Takumi Kitamura, Sho Aoyagi, Jun Matsumoto and the underappreciated Nobuaki Kaneko. The cherry on top of it all is the fact that one of the greatest action directors/choreographers of all-time, Kensuke Sonomura, is the man behind the action and you have all of the ingredients for a winner. An elderly former Shinsengumi captain, Shinpachi Nagakura recounts the tale of the group on a snowy night in 1912 to Makoto Ichikawa a woman seeking to find the truth regar...
