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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:
A complicated tale but delivers the action moreCast
(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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Samurai Assassin is a complicated story but easier to follow than director Okomoto's excellent Sword of Doom made a year later. While it is clear that the band of assassins is seeking revenge on an official for an earlier purge on the assassins' clans, we never learn about the original reasons for their enmity. Historically, the disagreements concerned relations with foreign countries who were seeking to open up Japan to trade, but this is never alluded to in the film. The driving forces of the story, and they are good ones, are Niino's (Mifune) ambition to achieve full samurai rank and the paranoia of the leaders of the assassin band. These two forces interact nicely as the plot unfolds. Eijiro Tono (the innkeeper who befriends Mifune in Yojimbo) does his usual terrific job as the merchant who helped raise Niino and tries to protect him from meeting a tragic fate. Highly recommended for samurai and Mifune fans.