Movie

Samurai Assassin (1965)

• January 3, 1965
• 2h 2m

• Drama
• Action
• History

“Here, at the Gates of Sakurada, the Shogunate will fall.”

Overview

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

Writers

Shinobu Hashimoto

Starring

Toshirō Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Yūnosuke Itō