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.
Director:
Kihachi Okamoto
Writer:
Shinobu Hashimoto
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Toshirō Mifune as Tsuruchiyo Niiro |
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Keiju Kobayashi as Einosuke Kurihara |
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Yūnosuke Itō as Kenmotsu Hoshino |
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Michiyo Aratama as Okiku / Princess Kiku |
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Eijirō Tōno as Masagorō Kisoya |
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Tatsuyoshi Ehara as Ichigorō Hayama |
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Tadao Nakamaru as Shigezo Inada |
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Kaoru Yachigusa as Mitsu |
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Haruko Sugimura as Tsuru |
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Nami Tamura as Yae |
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Shirō Ōtsuji as Kaname Kojima |
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Yoshio Inaba as Keijiro Sumita |
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Akihiko Hirata as Sohei Masui |
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Hideyo Amamoto as Matazaburo Hagiwara |
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Ikio Sawamura as Tatsukichi Bisenya |
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Chōtarō Tōgin as Seiichi Morikawa |
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Yasuzō Ogawa as Ronin |
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Masaya Nihei as Ronin |
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Toshio Kurosawa as Katsunoshin Itamura |
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Matsumoto Hakuō I as Naosuke Ii |
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Susumu Fujita as Tatewaki Todo |
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Hiroshi Hasegawa as Ronin |
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Chūsha Ichikawa as Sahyōnosuke Matsudaira |
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Komazō Ichikawa as Shuzen Nakano |
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Kōji Iwamoto as Ronin |
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Nadao Kirino as Samurai |
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Naoya Kusakawa as Sharp Eyes Man |
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Jun'ichirō Mukai as Samurai |
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Takashi Shimura as Narihisa Ichijō |
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Yoshibumi Tajima as Samurai |
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Mitsugu Terashima as Chuzaemon Nishikawa |
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Fujio Tokita as Ronin |
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Yasuhisa Tsutsumi as Sumoya Manager |
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Yurie Hidaka as |
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Kan Hōshō as |
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Nagayo Kita as |
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Ren Yamamoto as |
| Writing | Jirōmasa Gunji | Book |
| Directing | Kihachi Okamoto | Director |
| Writing | Shinobu Hashimoto | Screenplay |
| Sound | Masaru Satō | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Hiroshi Murai | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Yoshitami Kuroiwa | Editor |
| Art | Iwao Akune | Production Design |
| Directing | Michio Yamamoto | Assistant Director |
| Crew | Minoru Izumi | Special Effects |
| Crew | Ryū Kuze | Fight Choreographer |
| Production | Tomoyuki Tanaka | Producer |
