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Director:
Kihachi Okamoto
Writers:
Jiromasa Gunji (story)
Shinobu Hashimoto (writer)
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Release Date:
5 March 1965 (USA) more
Plot:
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 synopsis
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Cast

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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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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Samurai Assassin
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Runtime:
123 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Australia:M

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A complicated tale but delivers the action, 17 September 2002
Author: gkbazalo from Scottsdale, AZ

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.

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