Kurofune

About the show

At Shimoda in the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate, loyalist samurai Yoshida calls on officials to expel foreigners. Geisha Okichi is ordered to assassinate the American consul, but becomes his mistress and struggles between her mission and his kindness. Yoshida later attacks the consulate, only for a messenger from Kyoto to announce the Emperor’s wish for peace.