Samurai Assassin

Jan 3, 1965

2h 2m

★ 7.3

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.

Genres

Drama

Action

History

Production Companies

TOHO

Mifune Productions

Samurai Assassin Trailers

Cast

Tsuruchiyo Niiro

Toshirō Mifune

Einosuke Kurihara

Keiju Kobayashi

Kenmotsu Hoshino

Yūnosuke Itō

Okiku / Princess Kiku

Michiyo Aratama

Masagorō Kisoya

Eijirō Tōno

Ichigorō Hayama

Tatsuyoshi Ehara

Shigezo Inada

Tadao Nakamaru

Mitsu

Kaoru Yachigusa

Tsuru

Haruko Sugimura

Yae

Nami Tamura

Kaname Kojima

Shirō Ōtsuji

Keijiro Sumita

Yoshio Inaba

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