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Samurai Assassin
Here, at the Gates of Sakurada, the Shogunate will fall.
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 as Tsuruchiyo Niiro
- Keiju Kobayashi as Einosuke Kurihara
- Yūnosuke Itō as Kenmotsu Hoshino
- Michiyo Aratama as Okiku / Princess Kiku
- Eijirō Tōno as Masagorō Kisoya
- Tatsuyoshi Ehara as Ichigorō Hayama
- Tadao Nakamaru as Shigezo Inada
- Kaoru Yachigusa as Mitsu
- Haruko Sugimura as Tsuru
- Nami Tamura as Yae
- Shirō Ōtsuji as Kaname Kojima
- Yoshio Inaba as Keijiro Sumita
Details
- Director
- Kihachi Okamoto
- Released
- January 3, 1965
- Runtime
- 2h 2m
- Genres
- Drama, Action, History
- Studio
- TOHO and Mifune Productions
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 7.3 / 10 from 63 votes
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