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5 March 1965 (USA) morePlot:
February 17 to March 3, 1860, inside Edo castle. A group of assassins wait by Sakurada Gate to kill the lord of the House of Ii... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
First-class Film more (7 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Toshirô Mifune | ... | Tsuruchiyo Niiro | |
| Keiju Kobayashi | ... | Einosuke Kurihara | |
| Michiyo Aratama | ... | Okiku / Kukuhime | |
| Yûnosuke Itô | ... | Hoshino Kenmotsu | |
| Eijirô Tôno | ... | Seigoro Kisoya | |
| Tatsuyoshi Ehara | ... | Ichigoro Hayama | |
| Tadao Nakamaru | ... | Shigezo Inada | |
| Shiro Otsude | ... | Kaname Kojima | |
| Yoshio Inaba | ... | Keijiro Sumita | |
| Akihiko Hirata | ... | Sohei Masui | |
| Eisei Amamoto | ... | Matazaburo Hagiwara (as Hideyo Amamoto) | |
| Ikio Sawamura | ... | Tatsukichi Bisenya | |
| Chotaro Togin | ... | Seiichi Morikawa | |
| Yasuzo Ogawa | ... | Ronin | |
| Masanari Nihei | ... | Ronin |
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A first-class film that excels in script, cinematography and acting. It is difficult to name a lot of films that are so well conceived of and executed. The plot is amazing and the twists are well-crafted. The narrator seems an imposition at the start but as the film progresses it only adds to the mood. I found the movement (pace) of the film delightful, juxtaposed between the swift and the languid. Of course, for most of us outside the idiom of Japanese cinema the acting maybe described as melodramatic, but that's pretty much the norm there. And how can anyone not comment on the film's last scene - the snow, the blood, the twist of fate, the camera moves like an assassin itself. I highly recommend it.