Samurai Assassin(1965)
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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Tsuruchiyo Niiro
Einosuke Kurihara
Kenmotsu Hoshino
Okiku / Princess Kiku
Masagorō Kisoya
Ichigorō Hayama
Shigezo Inada
Mitsu
Tsuru
Yae
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