Samurai Assassin
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.
Top Billed Cast
Toshirō Mifune
Tsuruchiyo Niiro
Keiju Kobayashi
Einosuke Kurihara
Yūnosuke Itō
Kenmotsu Hoshino
Michiyo Aratama
Okiku / Princess Kiku
Eijirō Tōno
Masagorō Kisoya
Featured Crew
Jiromasa Gunji
Book
Kihachi Okamoto
Director
Shinobu Hashimoto
Screenplay
Masaru Satō
Original Music Composer
Hiroshi Murai
Director of Photography
Yoshitami Kuroiwa
Editor
Iwao Akune
Production Design
Michio Yamamoto
Assistant Director
Minoru Izumi
Special Effects
Ryū Kuze
Fight Choreographer
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Producer
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