When the Samurai force known as the Shinsengumi were driven from their base in Kyoto, the tide of Japan's Boshin War had turned against the remaining Tokugawa Loyalists. Of their three surviving captains, no one knew what became of 10th Unit Captain Harada Sanosuke, until now. Based on a real-life 1965 rumor that surfaced in a Japanese newspaper, The Soldier and the Samurai is an epic generational tale of gratitude of a man who claimed to be the famous...