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Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor (1969)
Directed by Tadashi Sawashima
Action, Drama, History · 2h 02m
Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a new age. But not all are content...The Shinsengumi, a small army of samurai, farmers and peasants, band together to do battle against the tide of history. Their leader, Isami Kondo is a man who rises from farmer to fighter to head the fierce Shinsengumi brigade. Using a stern hand and a heart of gold, he rallies his men in defense of the tottering Shogunate. But bloodshed and treachery lurk around every corner.
Cast
Toshirō Mifune
Isami Kondo
Keiju Kobayashi
Toshizo Hijikata
Kinya Kitaoji
Soji Okita
Yōko Tsukasa
Tsune
Yuriko Hoshi
Otaka
Kan'emon Nakamura
Yasubo Katsu
Junko Ikeuchi
Oyuki
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Fujita Arima
Umenosuke Nakamura
Keisuke Yamana
Yumiko Nogawa
Oume
Takahiro Tamura
Koshitaro Ito
Katsuo Nakamura
Kisaburo Kawai
Crew
- Director
- Tadashi Sawashima
- Screenplay
- Kenrō Matsuura
- Director of Photography
- Kazuo Yamada
- Original Music Composer
- Masaru Satō
- Editor
- Yoshihiro Araki
- Producer
- Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirō Mifune, Yoshio Nishikawa
Details
- Original title
- 新選組
- Release date
- 1969-12-05
- Runtime
- 2h 02m
- Genres
- Action, Drama, History
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- TOHO, Mifune Productions