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Samurai Spy (1965)
Directed by Masahiro Shinoda
Action, Drama · 1h 40m
Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Tatewaki Koriyama defects from the shogun to a rival clan, however, the world of swordsmen is thrown into turmoil. After Sasuke is unwittingly drawn into the conflict, he tracks Tatewaki, while a mysterious, white-hooded figure seems to hunt them both. By tale’s end, no one is who they seemed to be, and the truth is far more personal than anyone suspected. Director Masahiro Shinoda’s Samurai Spy, filled with clan intrigue, ninja spies, and multiple double crosses, marks a bold stylistic departure from swordplay film convention.
Cast
Kōji Takahashi
Sarutobi Sasuke
Shintarō Ishihara
Saizo Kirigakure
Eitarō Ozawa
Shigeyuki Koremura
Kei Satō
Takanosuke Nojiri
Rokkō Toura
Mitsuaki Inamura
Tetsuro Tamba
Sakon Takatani
Eiji Okada
Tatewaki Koriyama
Seiji Miyaguchi
Jinnai-Kazutaka Horikawa
Minoru Hodaka
Genba Kuni
Misako Watanabe
Okiwa
Yasunori Irikawa
Yashiro Kobayashi
Jitsuko Yoshimura
Omiyo
Crew
- Director
- Masahiro Shinoda
- Screenplay
- Yoshiyuki Fukuda
- Novel
- Koji Nakada
- Director of Photography
- Masao Kosugi
- Original Music Composer
- Tōru Takemitsu
- Editor
- Yoshi Sugihara
- Producer
- Shizuo Yamanouchi
Details
- Original title
- 異聞猿飛佐助
- Release date
- 1965-07-10
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Action, Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Shochiku