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Samurai Assassin (1965)
Directed by Kihachi Okamoto
“Here, at the Gates of Sakurada, the Shogunate will fall.”
Drama, Action, History · 2h 02m
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.
Cast
Toshirō Mifune
Tsuruchiyo Niiro
Keiju Kobayashi
Einosuke Kurihara
Yūnosuke Itō
Kenmotsu Hoshino
Michiyo Aratama
Okiku / Princess Kiku
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
Crew
- Director
- Kihachi Okamoto
- Screenplay
- Shinobu Hashimoto
- Director of Photography
- Hiroshi Murai
- Original Music Composer
- Masaru Satō
- Editor
- Yoshitami Kuroiwa
- Producer
- Tomoyuki Tanaka
Details
- Original title
- 侍
- Release date
- 1965-01-03
- Runtime
- 2h 02m
- Genres
- Drama, Action, History
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- TOHO, Mifune Productions