Samurai Assassin (1965)

Name: Samurai Assassin
Genre: Drama, Action, History
Released: 1965-01-03
Duration: 122 min
Cast: Toshirō Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Yūnosuke Itō, Michiyo Aratama, Eijirō Tōno

Here, at the Gates of Sakurada, the Shogunate will fall.

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.

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Released 1965-01-03 · 122 min · Drama, Action, History

Directed by Kihachi Okamoto

Cast

Toshirō Mifune as Tsuruchiyo Niiro
Keiju Kobayashi as Einosuke Kurihara
Yūnosuke Itō as Kenmotsu Hoshino
Michiyo Aratama as Okiku / Princess Kiku
Eijirō Tōno as Masagorō Kisoya
Tatsuyoshi Ehara as Ichigorō Hayama
Tadao Nakamaru as Shigezo Inada
Kaoru Yachigusa as Mitsu
Haruko Sugimura as Tsuru
Nami Tamura as Yae
Shirō Ōtsuji as Kaname Kojima
Yoshio Inaba as Keijiro Sumita
Akihiko Hirata as Sohei Masui
Hideyo Amamoto as Matazaburo Hagiwara
Ikio Sawamura as Tatsukichi Bisenya