The Great Killing (1964)
大殺陣
Heaven has no swords.
A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent on usurping the shogunate in the 17th century. A Shogunate Elder connives to rule Japan by making his puppet, the Shogun's brother Tsunashige, the next Shogun. The best strategist in Japan, Yamaga, leads a plot to stop the Elder, but his cabal is betrayed and most of the conspirators are captured and tortured.
- Date of release
- 1964-06-03
- TMDB
- 7.3 / 10 (25)
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Genres
- Action, Drama
- Director
- Eiichi Kudō
- Collection
- Kudo's Samurai Revolution Trilogy
Casting
- Tōru Abe
- Mikijiro Hira
- Yoshio Inaba
- Chiezo Kataoka
- Chōichirō Kawarasaki
- Nami Munakata
- Kōtarō Satomi
- Minoru Ōki
- Shirō Ōsaka
- Hideo Sunazuka
- Rinichi Yamamoto
- Kōshirō Harada
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- 13 Assassins 2010 · ★ 7.3
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- The Sword of Doom 1966 · ★ 7.8
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- The Tale of Zatoichi 1962 · ★ 7.3