The Great Killing
7.3
“Heaven has no swords.”
A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent on usurping the shogunate in the 17th century. A Shogunate Elder connives to rule Japan by making his puppet, the Shogun's brother Tsunashige, the next Shogun. The best strategist in Japan, Yamaga, leads a plot to stop the Elder, but his cabal is betrayed and most of the conspirators are captured and tortured.
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Part of Kudo's Samurai Revolution Trilogy
3 films
Cast
32 people
Tōru Abe
Known for
Shōgun
Tokyo Story
Mikijiro Hira
Known for
The Face of Another
Sword of the Beast
Yoshio Inaba
Known for
Seven Samurai
Harakiri
Chiezo Kataoka
Also in
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
Hero of the Red Light District
Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Known for
Profound Desires of the Gods
Rhapsody in August
Nami Munakata
Also in
Choujuu Sentai Liveman
Fighting Tatsu, the Rickshaw Man
Kōtarō Satomi
Known for
Legal High
Minoru Ōki
Known for
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
Shogun Assassin
Shirō Ōsaka
Known for
Tokyo Story
Pigs and Battleships
Hideo Sunazuka
Known for
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Blind Woman's Curse
Rinichi Yamamoto
Known for
Shōgun
Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
Kōshirō Harada
Also in
Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
Seventeen Ninja
Eiichi Kudō Director · Kaneo Ikegami Writer Seiichi Suzuki Composer
United States release July 3, 2012 · Produced in Japan · Original title 大殺陣
Production
Toei Company
Production
Japan
Produced in
Languages
Original title
大殺陣
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · June 3, 1964
Theatrical
United States · July 3, 2012
Physical · DVD
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