Samurai Assassin (1965)
Samurai
Here, at the Gates of Sakurada, the Shogunate will fall.
122 min
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.
- Release date
- January 3, 1965
- Country of origin
- Japan
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Trailer
Cast
- Toshirō Mifune as Tsuruchiyo Niinô
- Keiju Kobayashi as Einosuke Kurihara
- Yūnosuke Itō as Kenmotsu Hoshino
- Michiyo Aratama as Okiku
- Eijirō Tōno as Masagorô Kisoya
- Tatsuyoshi Ehara as Ichigoro Hayama
- Tadao Nakamaru as Shigezo Inada
- Kaoru Yachigusa as Mitsu
- Haruko Sugimura as Tsuru
- Nami Tamura as Yae
- Shirô Ôtsuji as Kaname Kojima
- Yoshio Inaba as Keijiro Sumita
- Akihiko Hirata as Sohei Masui
- Hideyo Amamoto as Matazaburo Hagiwara
- Ikio Sawamura as Tatsukichi Bisenya
- Chôtarô Tôgin as Seiichi Morikawa
- Yasuzô Ogawa as Ronin
- Masaya Nihei as Ronin
- Toshio Kurosawa as Katsunoshin Itamura
- Hakuô Matsumoto as Naosuke Ii
- Susumu Fujita as Tatewaki Todo
- Hiroshi Hasegawa as Ronin
- Chûsha Ichikawa as Sahyōnosuke Matsudaira
- Kôji Iwamoto as Ronin
- Nadao Kirino as Samurai
- Naoya Kusakawa as Sharp Eyes Man
- Takashi Shimura as Narihisa Ichijō
- Yoshifumi Tajima as Samurai
- Michiyo Aratama as Kikuhime
Crew
- Kihachi Okamoto · Director
- Shinobu Hashimoto · Writer
- Jiromasa Gunji · Writer
- Tomoyuki Tanaka · Producer
- Masaru Satō · Composer
- Hiroshi Murai · Cinematographer
- Yoshitami Kuroiwa · Editor
- Iwao Akune · Production designer