Samurai Assassin (1965)
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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.
- Date of release
- 1965-01-03
- TMDB
- 7.3 / 10 (63)
- Runtime
- 2h 2m
- Genres
- Drama, Action, History
- Director
- Kihachi Okamoto
Casting
- 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
Interesting facts
Samurai Assassin is a 1965 Japanese film directed by Kihachi Okamoto and starring Toshiro Mifune, Koshiro Matsumoto, Yūnosuke Itō, and Michiyo Aratama. It is set in 1860, immediately before the Meiji Restoration changed Japanese society forever by doing away with the castes in society and reducing the position of the samurai class.
Production
Samurai Assassin was a production of both Toho and Mifune Productions. It is based on the book Samurai Japan by Jiromasa Gunji.
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