Samurai Assassin

Name: Samurai Assassin
Genre: Drama, History, Action
Released: 1965-01-03
Duration: 122 min
Rating: 7.3

Here, at the Gates of Sakurada, the Shogunate will fall.

2h 2m Japanese

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Samurai Assassin

Here, at the Gates of Sakurada, the Shogunate will fall.

2h 2m Japanese

★ #16,040 Drama History Action

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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.

Director Kihachi Okamoto

Book Jirōmasa Gunji Screenplay Shinobu Hashimoto