| Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate | |
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Japanese theatrical release poster |
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| Directed by | Yuzo Kawashima |
| Written by | Yuzo Kawashima, Shōhei Imamura, Keiichi Tanaka |
| Distributed by | Nikkatsu |
| Release date(s) | July 14, 1957[1] |
| Running time | 110 minutes[1] |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate (幕末太陽傳 or 幕末太陽伝 Bakumatsu taiyōden) is a 1957 black-and-white Japanese film comedy directed by Yuzo Kawashima with a screenplay by Kawashima, Shōhei Imamura and Keiichi Tanaka. It was voted the fifth best Japanese film of all time in a poll of 140 Japanese critics and filmmakers conducted by the magazine Kinema Junpo in 1999.[2]