Samurai Assassin (1965)

Name: Samurai Assassin
Director: Kihachi Okamoto
Released: 1965-01-03
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Toshirō Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Yūnosuke Itō, Michiyo Aratama, Eijirō Tōno

DramaActionHistory

122 min

"Here, at the Gates of Sakurada, the Shogunate will fall."

Plot Summary

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.