Samurai Assassin
1965 · ★ 7.1 · Dir. Kihachi Okamoto
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate and responsible for their misfortune.
- Released
- 1965-01-03
- Runtime
- 122 min
- Language
- JA
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Keiju Kobayashi
Einosuke Kurihara
Yūnosuke Itō
Kenmotsu Hoshino
Michiyo Aratama
Okiku / Princess Kiku
Toshirō Mifune
Tsuruchiyo Niiro
Eijirō Tōno
Masagorō Kisoya
Tatsuyoshi Ehara
Ichigorō Hayama
Tadao Nakamaru
Shigezo Inada
Kaoru Yachigusa
Mitsu
Haruko Sugimura
Tsuru
Nami Tamura
Yae
Shirō Ōtsuji
Kaname Kojima
Yoshio Inaba
Keijiro Sumita
Keywords
Based on novel or bookBased on a true storyTokyo, japan19th centurySword fightSamuraiRoninEdo periodHistorically inaccurateJidaigekiBased on true story
