Samurai Assassin
7.4
“Here, at the Gates of Sakurada, the Shogunate will fall.”
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.
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Cast
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Toshirō Mifune
Tsuruchiyo Niiro
Known for
Seven Samurai
Rashomon
Keiju Kobayashi
Einosuke Kurihara
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The Return of Godzilla
Sanjuro
Yūnosuke Itō
Kenmotsu Hoshino
Known for
High and Low
Sanjuro
Michiyo Aratama
Okiku / Princess Kiku
Known for
Kwaidan
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Eijirō Tōno
Masagorō Kisoya
Known for
Seven Samurai
Tokyo Story
Tatsuyoshi Ehara
Ichigorō Hayama
Known for
Samurai Rebellion
Red Beard
Tadao Nakamaru
Shigezo Inada
Known for
Terror of Mechagodzilla
What's Up, Tiger Lily?
Kaoru Yachigusa
Mitsu
Known for
Hachiko
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Haruko Sugimura
Tsuru
Known for
Tokyo Story
Late Spring
Nami Tamura
Yae
Known for
Kill!
Love at Twenty
Shirō Ōtsuji
Kaname Kojima
Known for
Blind Woman's Curse
Yoshio Inaba
Keijiro Sumita
Known for
Seven Samurai
Harakiri
Kihachi Okamoto Director · Shinobu Hashimoto Screenplay Jirōmasa Gunji Author
United States release March 5, 1965 · Produced in Japan · Production Mifune Productions, Mifune Production Co., Ltd.
Production
TOHO
Production
Mifune Productions
Production
Mifune Production Co., Ltd.
Production
Japan
Produced in
Languages
Original title
侍
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · January 3, 1965
Theatrical
United States · March 5, 1965
Theatrical
Argentina
March 22, 1965 · Premiere · Mar del Plata Film Festival
March 2, 1966 · Theatrical
Mexico
July 28, 1966 · Theatrical
Netherlands
October 16, 2006 · Physical · DVD
Russia
November 3, 2014 · Limited theatrical · Retrospective of Kihachi Okamoto (Moscow)
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