Title: Samurai Assassin (侍)
Release Date: 1965-01-03
IMDB ID: tt0059673
Vote Average: 7.3 (60 votes)
Overview: 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),
Crew: Jirōmasa Gunji (Book), Kihachi Okamoto (Director), Iwao Akune (Production Design), Shinobu Hashimoto (Screenplay), Tomoyuki Tanaka (Producer), Ryū Kuze (Fight Choreographer),