Jan 03, 1965
122 min
Full-HD

Samurai Assassin (1965)

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.

Category

Drama Action History

Country

Japan

Companies

TOHO Mifune Productions

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

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