The Last concubine
          
        
                          
        
                
                    
            
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                      2008
                  
                                                        
          
                                        At the age of eleven, in 1861, Sachi is taken from her village to the palace at Edo to become a concubine for the young shogun. A tale of adventure and romance in the final revolutionary years of Japan's shogunate period.