Samurai Assassin

7.3

1965

2h 2m

DramaActionHistory

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.

Key Crew

Director

Kihachi Okamoto

Producers

Tomoyuki Tanaka

Writers

Shinobu Hashimoto

Cinematography

Hiroshi Murai

Music

Masaru Satō

Cast (37)

Toshirō Mifune

Tsuruchiyo Niiro

Keiju Kobayashi

Einosuke Kurihara

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