SAMURAI ASSASSIN [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1965
• Genre: Action, Drama, Foreign, Martial Arts
• Plot: Based on the Sakurada Gate Incident of 1860, an assassination of a Shogunate official, that effectively marked the end of the Edo Period in Japan, SAMURAI ASSASSIN has long been considered one of the finest samurai films to come out of Japan. The film stars Toshiro Mifune as Niiro, a frustrated ronin who has agreed to take part in the coup against the Shogunate official in the hopes that it will secure him enough fame to earn him a position in a great Samurai house. A bastard child who has fallen into abject poverty despite his considerable skills, Niiro is willing to do anything in order to become a successful samurai, unaware that fate will never allow it.; ; Format: DVD MOVIE
• Cast: Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Michiyo Aratama, Yûnosuke Itô, Eijirô Tono, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Tadao Nakamaru, Shiro Otsude, Yoshio Inaba, Akihiko Hirata, Eisei Amamoto, Ikio Sawamura, Chotaro Togin, Yasuzo Ogawa, Masanari Nihei, Toshio Kurosawa, Yoshifumi Tajima, Koraizo Ichikawa, Nadao Kirino, Junichirô Mukai, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Naoya Kusakawa, Yasuhisa Tsutsumi, Fujio Tsuneda, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Mitsugu Terashima, Susumu Fujita, Shikaku Nakamura, Kazuo Suzuki, Hiroshi Sekita, Koshiro Matsumoto, Chûsha Ichikawa, Takashi Shimura, Haruko Sugimura, Nami Tamura, Kaoru Yachigusa, Kihachi Okamoto
• Director: Kihachi Okamoto
• Runtime: 2:02
• Company: AnimEigo
• Media Format: Movie