

Samurai Assassin
1965 Directed by Kihachi OkamotoJapan, 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.
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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
Director
...........................................................Kihachi Okamoto
Producer
...........................................................Tomoyuki Tanaka
Assistant Director
...........................................................Michio Yamamoto
Book
...........................................................Jirōmasa Gunji
Production Design
...........................................................Iwao Akune
Screenplay
...........................................................Shinobu Hashimoto
Fight Choreographer
...........................................................Ryū Kuze
Production Companies
...................................................TOHO
Mifune Productions
Production Countries
........................................................Japan
Spoken Languages
....................................................日本語
Genres
....................................................Drama
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