Shinsengumi teach your grandma to cross the street. No, seriously.
Jun Hashizume and Goro Ibuki appear in this traffic historical drama that will allow the elderly to reconfirm traffic safety. From an accident that occurs in the town of Kyo at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate while talking with the Shinsengumi and the party, knowledge and traffic rules necessary for the elderly to avoid traffic accidents can be learned.
Writing
Tokugawa-era traffic laws somehow make sense.
Production
Period costumes meet modern road signs.
Director
Yasuji Inoue
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Japan produces hundreds of these targeted educational shorts annually, often using celebrities to deliver dry government messaging to specific demographics.
Hashizume and Ibuki were both 1970s-80s jidaigeki TV stars, essentially the Japanese equivalent of getting John Wayne to do a driver's ed film.
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