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.

Cast

Toshirō Mifune

as Tsuruchiyo Niiro

Keiju Kobayashi

as Einosuke Kurihara

Yūnosuke Itō

as Kenmotsu Hoshino

Michiyo Aratama

as Okiku / Princess Kiku

Eijirō Tōno

as Masagorō Kisoya

Tatsuyoshi Ehara

as Ichigorō Hayama

Tadao Nakamaru

as Shigezo Inada

Kaoru Yachigusa

as Mitsu

Haruko Sugimura

as Tsuru

Nami Tamura

as Yae

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