Samurai Assassin

Samurai Assassin

122 mins | Drama, Action, History | Jan. 3, 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.

Samurai Assassin

122 mins | Drama, Action, History | Jan. 3, 1965

Samurai Assassin
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.
IMDb rating 7.4
Producers
Original title
Directors Michio Yamamoto, Kihachi Okamoto
Writers Jiromasa Gunji, Shinobu Hashimoto

Cast

Toshirō Mifune

as Tsuruchiyo Niiro

Keiju Kobayashi

as Einosuke Kurihara

Yūnosuke Itō

as Kenmotsu Hoshino

Michiyo Aratama

as Okiku / Princess Kiku

Eijirō Tōno

as Masagorō Kisoya

Tatsuyoshi Ehara

as Ichigorō Hayama

Tadao Nakamaru

as Shigezo Inada

Kaoru Yachigusa

as Mitsu

Haruko Sugimura

as Tsuru

Nami Tamura

as Yae

Shirō Ōtsuji

as Kaname Kojima

Yoshio Inaba

as Keijiro Sumita

Akihiko Hirata

as Sohei Masui

Hideyo Amamoto

as Matazaburo Hagiwara

Ikio Sawamura

as Tatsukichi Bisenya

Chōtarō Tōgin

as Seiichi Morikawa

Yasuzō Ogawa

as Ronin

Masaya Nihei

as Ronin

Toshio Kurosawa

as Katsunoshin Itamura

Hakuō Matsumoto

as Naosuke Ii

Susumu Fujita

as Tatewaki Todo

Hiroshi Hasegawa

as Ronin

Chūsha Ichikawa

as Sahyōnosuke Matsudaira

Komazō Ichikawa

as Shuzen Nakano

Kōji Iwamoto

as Ronin

Nadao Kirino

as Samurai

Naoya Kusakawa

as Sharp Eyes Man

Jun'ichirō Mukai

as Samurai

Takashi Shimura

as Narihisa Ichijō

Yoshifumi Tajima

as Samurai

Mitsugu Terashima

as Chuzaemon Nishikawa

Fujio Tokita

as Ronin

Yasuhisa Tsutsumi

as Sumoya Manager