Query: Japanese alternate history or films set in 1866
Domain: films
Relevant documents:
Samurai Commando: Mission 1549
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Little Big Man (film)
Twenty Six Days from the Life of Dostoyevsky
Future War 198X
K-20: Legend of the Mask
Black Butler (film)
The Gambler (1997 film)
Steamboy
Godzilla vs. Megaguirus
Bend of the River
Evidence from documents: Samurai Commando: Mission 1549: '''''Samurai Commando: Mission 1549''''', known in Japan as , is a 2005 Japanese feature-length film and manga series focusing on the adventures of a modern-day Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) element that accidentally travels through time to the Warring States period of Japanese history.
The Place Promised in Our Early Days: alternate history: Set over several years in an alternate history where the Soviet Union occupies half of Japan,
Japanese: a 2004 Japanese anime film
Little Big Man (film): In 1866, Jack becomes the apprentice of the snake-oil salesman Meriweather
Twenty Six Days from the Life of Dostoyevsky: The film is set in October 1866.
Future War 198X: Japanese: is a 1982 Japanese anime science fiction war film directed by Toshio Masuda and Tomoharu Katsumata.
alternate history: Partially inspired by the speculative war novel ''The Third World War: The Untold Story'' by General Sir John Hackett, the movie's plot is focused on a World War III set in the later part of the 1980s, with the digit X denoting the specific year the war breaks out.
K-20: Legend of the Mask: alternate history: The story takes place in an alternate history in 1948–49, in an imaginary alternative Tokyo which has taken a different history and in which World War II never happened.
Japanese: at film festivals, ''The Fiend with Twenty Faces'' on home video in the United States and ''The Legend of the Black Mask'' in the United Kingdom) is a 2008 Japanese action film written and directed by Shimako Satō and based on a novel by Sō Kitamura and its sequel.
Black Butler (film): Japanese: is a 2014 Japanese period-style action fantasy film directed by Kentarō Ōtani and Keiichi Satō.
alternate history: The film is set in a parallel, quasi-Victorian history.
The Gambler (1997 film): It is set around the writing of the 1866 novel ''The Gambler'' by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Steamboy: Japanese: is a 2004 Japanese animated steampunk action film produced by Sunrise, directed and co-written by Katsuhiro Otomo, his second major anime release as a director, following ''Akira'' (1988).
alternate history: In 1863, where an alternate nineteenth century Europe has made tremendous strides in steam-powered technologies, scientist Lloyd Steam and his son Edward have succeeded in discovering a pure mineral water in Iceland which they believe can be harnessed as a nearly unlimited power source for steam engines.
Godzilla vs. Megaguirus: Japanese: is a 2000 Japanese ''kaiju'' film directed by Masaaki Tezuka, written by Hiroshi Kashiwabara and Wataru Mimura, produced by Shogo Tomiyama, and starring Misato Tanaka, Shōsuke Tanihara, Yuriko Hoshi, Masatoh Eve, and Toshiyuki Nagashima.
alternate history: ''Godzilla vs. Megaguirus'', despite featuring the same Godzilla suit that was used in its immediate predecessor, ''Godzilla 2000'', ignores the events of the previous installment, as well as every other entry in the franchise aside from the original 1954 film ''Godzilla''.
Bend of the River: In 1866, remorseful former border raider Glyn McLyntock is scouting for a wagon train of settlers to Oregon.