Samurai Assassin (1965)
Original title: 侍
Samurai Assassin is a 1965 Japanese-language drama movie directed by Kihachi Okamoto, with a running time of 2h 2m. It stars Toshirō Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi and Yūnosuke Itō.
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.
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