Samurai Assassin
Here, at the Gates of Sakurada, the Shogunate will fall.
Film19652h 2mReleased
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Details
- Director
- Kihachi Okamoto
- Language
- Japanese
- Released
- 1965-01-03
- Runtime
- 2h 2m
Community score
7.363 votes on TMDB
Confidence
Rating weighted by how many people voted
6.6
The story
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 MifuneTsuruchiyo Niiro
- Keiju KobayashiEinosuke Kurihara
- Yūnosuke ItōKenmotsu Hoshino
- Michiyo AratamaOkiku / Princess Kiku
- Eijirō TōnoMasagorō Kisoya
- Tatsuyoshi EharaIchigorō Hayama
- Tadao NakamaruShigezo Inada
- Kaoru YachigusaMitsu
- Haruko SugimuraTsuru
- Nami TamuraYae
