Movie·1965·2h 2m
Samurai Assassin
Here, at the Gates of Sakurada, the Shogunate will fall.
Directed By
Kihachi Okamoto
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese
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The Story
Original title: 侍
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.
Written By
Shinobu Hashimoto
Producer
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Cinematography
Hiroshi Murai
Music
Masaru Satō
Editor
Yoshitami Kuroiwa
Themes
Production House
Audience Score
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// cast
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
Yasuzō Ogawa
Ronin
Masaya Nihei
Ronin
// crew
Crew
Kihachi Okamoto
Director
Shinobu Hashimoto
Screenplay
Masaru Satō
Original Music Composer
Hiroshi Murai
Director of Photography
Yoshitami Kuroiwa
Editor
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Producer
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