Samurai Assassin (1965)

7.4/10 122 min Drama Action History

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.

Cast

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

Akihiko Hirata

Sohei Masui

Hideyo Amamoto

Matazaburo Hagiwara

Ikio Sawamura

Tatsukichi Bisenya

Chōtarō Tōgin

Seiichi Morikawa

Masaya Nihei

Ronin

Toshio Kurosawa

Katsunoshin Itamura

Matsumoto Hakuō I

Naosuke Ii

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