About

You can stream Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Youthful Days in Edo (2026) on Max with a subscription.

A live-action adaptation that translates this deep legacy to the screen. Set in Kyoto at the end of the Edo period, the story depicts the intense and passionate lives of the Shinsengumi - the iconic samurai force that defended Kyoto in the final years of Japan's shogunate - through spectacular action and a bold interpretation based on historical facts. The story follows street brawler Toshizo Hijikata (Yuki Yamada), who finds a new kind of family in Isami Kondo and Soji Okita. Hijikata and his comrades in the Shinsengumi forge a bond of loyalty - tested by betrayal, illness, and war - as they fight not only their enemies but their own ideals.

Forget the polished myth of the noble warrior for a look at the raw, chaotic friction of the Shinsengumi's final stand. The choreography trades cinematic grace for the frantic, bone-crunching reality of street-level urban combat.