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Samurai Assassin is a 1965 Japanese movie directed by Kihachi Okamoto and starring Toshiro Mifune, Koshiro Matsumoto, Yūnosuke Itō, and Michiyo Aratama.
Samurai Assassin 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.
Original Release
01/03/1965
US Release
03/05/1965
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Toshirô Mifune | Tsuruchiyo Niiro |
| Keiju Kobayashi | Einosuke Kurihara |
| Michiyo Aratama | Okiku / Kikuhime / Princess Kiku |
| Yunosuke Ito | Kenmotsu Hoshino |
| Eijirô Tôno | Masagorô Kisoya / Masagorō Kisoya |
| Tatsuyoshi Ehara | Ichigoro Hayama / Ichigorō Hayama |
| Tadao Nakamaru | Shigezo Inada |
| Kaoru Yachigusa | Mitsu |
| Haruko Sugimura | Tsuru |
| Nami Tamura | Yae |
Directors
Writers
Shinobu Hashimoto, Jiromasa Gunji
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Toshirô Mifune | Tsuruchiyo Niiro |
| Keiju Kobayashi | Einosuke Kurihara |
| Michiyo Aratama | Okiku / Kikuhime / Princess Kiku |
| Yunosuke Ito | Kenmotsu Hoshino |
| Eijirô Tôno | Masagorô Kisoya / Masagorō Kisoya |
| Tatsuyoshi Ehara | Ichigoro Hayama / Ichigorō Hayama |
| Tadao Nakamaru | Shigezo Inada |
| Kaoru Yachigusa | Mitsu |
| Haruko Sugimura | Tsuru |
| Nami Tamura | Yae |
| Shirô Ôtsuji | Kaname Kojima |
| Yoshio Inaba | Keijiro Sumita |
| Akihiko Hirata | Sohei Masui |
| Hideyo Amamoto | Matazaburo Hagiwara |
| Ikio Sawamura | Tatsukichi Bisenya |
| Chôtarô Tôgin | Seiichi Morikawa |
| Yasuzô Ogawa | Ronin |
| Masaya Nihei | Ronin |
| Toshio Kurosawa | Katsunoshin Itamura |
| Yoshifumi Tajima | Samurai |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Robert J. Woodhead | Executive Producer |
| Masao Suzuki | Producer |
| Tomoyuki Tanaka | Producer |
