Samurai Assassin
“Here, at the Gates of Sakurada, the Shogunate will fall.”
1965•2h 2m•7.3•Released
DramaActionHistory
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.
Director
Kihachi Okamoto
Writer
Shinobu Hashimoto
Languages
Japanese
Studio
TOHO
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
Akihiko Hirata
Sohei Masui
Hideyo Amamoto
Matazaburo Hagiwara
Ikio Sawamura
Tatsukichi Bisenya
Production
Company
TOHO
Company
Mifune Productions
Producer
Tomoyuki Tanaka
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