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Samurai Assassin (1965)

Samurai Assassin (1965)

Action Drama History

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

Release Date: 1965, January 3
Directors: Kihachi Okamoto
Countries: Japan
Production: TOHO, TOHO, TOHO, Mifune Productions, Mifune Productions, Mifune Productions
Cast: Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Eijirō Tōno, Kōji Iwamoto, Yasuhisa Tsutsumi, Fujio Tokita, Yūnosuke Itō, Susumu Fujita, Yoshibumi Tajima, Ikio Sawamura, Jun'ichirō Mukai

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

based on novel or book based on true story samurai 19th century japan sword fight tokyo, japan jidaigeki ronin edo period bakumatsu