Samurai Assassin (1965)
Here, at the Gates of Sakurada, the Shogunate will fall.
1965 · 2h 2m · Drama, Action, History
Genres: Drama, Action, History
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.
Director: Kihachi Okamoto
Writers: Shinobu Hashimoto
Music by: Masaru Satō
Cinematography: Hiroshi Murai
Editor: Yoshitami Kuroiwa
Rated 7.3/10 by 63 viewers
Cast
Toshirō Mifune as Tsuruchiyo NiiroKeiju Kobayashi as Einosuke KuriharaYūnosuke Itō as Kenmotsu HoshinoMichiyo Aratama as Okiku / Princess KikuEijirō Tōno as Masagorō KisoyaTatsuyoshi Ehara as Ichigorō HayamaTadao Nakamaru as Shigezo InadaKaoru Yachigusa as MitsuHaruko Sugimura as TsuruNami Tamura as YaeShirō Ōtsuji as Kaname KojimaYoshio Inaba as Keijiro SumitaMore like this
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