Samurai Assassin

Samurai Assassin

Infobox Film | name = Samurai Assassin


caption = Theatrical poster for "Samurai Assassin" (1965)
director = Kihachi Okamoto
producer = Toshirō Mifune
Reiji Miwa
Masao Suzuki
Tomoyuki Tanaka
writer = Jiromasa Gunji (story)
Shinobu Hashimoto
starring = Toshirō Mifune
Keiju Kobayashi
Michiyo Aratama
Yûnosuke Itō
Eijirō Tono
Tatsuyoshi Ehara
Tadao Nakamaru
Shiro Otsude
Yoshio Inaba
Akihiko Hirata
Eisei Amamoto
Ikio Sawamura
music = Masaru Satō
cinematography = Hiroshi Murai
editing = Yoshitami Kuroiwa
distributor = Toho Company Ltd. (Japan)
Toho International Company Inc. (1966, USA)
released = January 3, 1965 (Japan)
March 5, 1965 (USA)
runtime = 123 min.
language = Japanese
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
imdb_id = 0059673

nihongo|"Samurai Assassin"|侍|Samurai is a 1965 Japanese movie directed by Kihachi Okamoto and starring Toshiro Mifune, Koshiro Matsumoto, Yunosuke Ito, 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. It is a typical samurai movie, with lots of conversation, beautiful black and white photography and a swordfight at the end. This movie is rather quiet in as far as the main part of the action goes.

The film tells the story of Niiro Tsurichiyo (Mifune) as the illegitimate son of a powerful nobleman, and the way of his life that made him a swordfighter but also a social outcast. The film is based on a novel, which in turn was inspired by a real event: the assassination of feudal lord Ii Naosuke outside the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle.

ee also

*Hitokiri


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