Samurai Assassin

2h 2m

Drama Action History

7.3

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.

Cast

Toshirō Mifune

Tsuruchiyo Niiro

Keiju Kobayashi

Einosuke Kurihara

Yūnosuke Itō

Kenmotsu Hoshino

Michiyo Aratama

Okiku / Princess Kiku

Eijirō Tōno

Masagorō Kisoya

Tatsuyoshi Ehara

Ichigorō Hayama

Tadao Nakamaru

Shigezo Inada

Kaoru Yachigusa

Mitsu

Haruko Sugimura

Tsuru

Nami Tamura

Yae

Shirō Ōtsuji

Kaname Kojima

Yoshio Inaba

Keijiro Sumita

Akihiko Hirata

Sohei Masui

Hideyo Amamoto

Matazaburo Hagiwara

Ikio Sawamura

Tatsukichi Bisenya

Chōtarō Tōgin

Seiichi Morikawa

Yasuzō Ogawa

Ronin

Masaya Nihei

Ronin

Toshio Kurosawa

Katsunoshin Itamura

Matsumoto Hakuō I

Naosuke Ii

Susumu Fujita

Tatewaki Todo

Hiroshi Hasegawa

Ronin

Chūsha Ichikawa

Sahyōnosuke Matsudaira

Komazō Ichikawa

Shuzen Nakano

Kōji Iwamoto

Ronin

Nadao Kirino

Samurai

Naoya Kusakawa

Sharp Eyes Man

Jun'ichirō Mukai

Samurai

Takashi Shimura

Narihisa Ichijō

Yoshibumi Tajima

Samurai

Mitsugu Terashima

Chuzaemon Nishikawa

Fujio Tokita

Ronin

Yasuhisa Tsutsumi

Sumoya Manager

Yurie Hidaka

Unknown

Kan Hōshō

Unknown

Nagayo Kita

Unknown

Ren Yamamoto

Unknown

Crew

Kihachi Okamoto

Director

Shinobu Hashimoto

Screenplay

Jirōmasa Gunji

Book

Yoshitami Kuroiwa

Editor

Hiroshi Murai

Director of Photography

Michio Yamamoto

Assistant Director

Tomoyuki Tanaka

Producer

Iwao Akune

Production Design

Minoru Izumi

Special Effects

Masaru Satō

Original Music Composer

Ryū Kuze

Fight Choreographer