Overview
In 1863, when American warships approach Japan, an enigmatic ronin becomes an important figure in a complex game of power between the Shogunate and the empire.
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Setting
Set in Edo
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Music
Music by Tōru Takemitsu
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Nobuo YamadaScreenplay
- Ryōtarō ShibaNovel
- Original title
- 暗殺
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- July 4, 1964
- Original language
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
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Cast
Tetsuro TambaHachiro Kiyokawa
Eiji OkadaLord Matsudaira
Eitarō OzawaPremier Itakura
Isao KimuraTadasaburo Sasaki
Shima IwashitaOren
Keiji Sada
Takeshi Kusaka- Sumio TakatsuOtojirô Kôno
Muga TakewakiShingo Miyagawa
Tamotsu HayakawaShôzô Ishizaka
Fujio SugaKyûô Udono
Takanobu HozumiTetsutaro Yamaoka- Hideo KidokoroInaba
Tetsuji TakechiHisamizu Shimazu
Gen ShimizuJûjirô Ishii- Yoshito YamajiDetective Yoshikichi
- Hiroshi AoyamaSankichi
- Shin'ya MizushimaKeijirô Aizawa
- Kyoko Aoi
Junkichi OrimotoKamo Serizawa
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