

Samurai Assassin
Drama
Action
History
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.
Status:
Released
Release Date:
1965-01-03
Runtime:
2h 2m
Director:
Kihachi Okamoto
Writer:
Shinobu Hashimoto
Top 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
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