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Samurai Assassin(Movie, 1965)

Original title: "侍" (Japanese/JA)

2h 2min | Genres: Drama, Action, History

Rating: 3.6/5 (with 21 votes)

Samurai Assassin (侍, Samurai) is a 1965 Japanese film directed by Kihachi Okamoto and starring Toshiro Mifune, Koshiro Matsumoto, Yūnosuke Itō, and Michiyo Aratama. It is set in 1860, immediately before the Meiji Restoration changed Japanese society forever by doing away with the castes in society and reducing the position of the samurai class. ()

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About 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.

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Additional Information

Production country: Japan

Plays in: Japan

Made by: Toho Company, Mifune Production Co., Ltd.

Original language: Japanese (JA)

Spoken languages: Japanese (JA)

Translated into 14 languages: Danish (DA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 03/05/1965 (World premiere: 01/03/1965)

Cast: Toshirō Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Michiyo Aratama, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Yūnosuke Itō, Eijirō Tōno, Kaoru Yachigusa, Sugimura Haruko, Akihiko Hirata, Hideyo Amamoto

Director: Kihachi Okamoto

Producer: Toshirō Mifune

Screenwriter: Shinobu Hashimoto

Film Editor: Yoshitami Kuroiwa

Composer: Masaru Sato

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Samurai"

"El samurai asesino"

"Samuraj-morderca"

Keywords: sword fight, ronin, based on true story, tokyo, japan, edo period, 19th century, based on novel or book, samurai, jidaigeki

Color: Black & White (B/W)

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