Movie

Samurai Assassin (1965)

侍

122 min

• Drama
• Action
• History

Director

Kihachi Okamoto

Released

January 3, 1965

Synopsis

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
• Keiju Kobayashi
• Yūnosuke Itō
• Michiyo Aratama
• Eijirō Tōno
• Tatsuyoshi Ehara
• Tadao Nakamaru
• Kaoru Yachigusa
• Haruko Sugimura
• Nami Tamura
• Shirō Ōtsuji
• Yoshio Inaba

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