Movie

Samurai Assassin

Released: January 3, 1965 (1965)

Runtime: 122 minutes

Genres: Drama, Action, History

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.

Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)

Eijirō Tōno as Masagorō Kisoya
Age at release: 57
Haruko Sugimura as Tsuru
Age at release: 55
Yūnosuke Itō as Kenmotsu Hoshino
Age at release: 45
Toshirō Mifune as Tsuruchiyo Niiro
Age at release: 44
Keiju Kobayashi as Einosuke Kurihara
Age at release: 41
Michiyo Aratama as Okiku / Princess Kiku
Age at release: 34
Kaoru Yachigusa as Mitsu
Age at release: 33
Tadao Nakamaru as Shigezo Inada
Age at release: 31
Tatsuyoshi Ehara as Ichigorō Hayama
Age at release: 27
Nami Tamura as Yae
Age at release: 22

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Ikio Sawamura as Tatsukichi Bisenya
Age at release: 59
Takashi Shimura as Narihisa Ichijō
Age at release: 59
Matsumoto Hakuō I as Naosuke Ii
Age at release: 54
Susumu Fujita as Tatewaki Todo
Age at release: 52
Yoshibumi Tajima as Samurai
Age at release: 46
Yoshio Inaba as Keijiro Sumita
Age at release: 44
Hideyo Amamoto as Matazaburo Hagiwara
Age at release: 39
Akihiko Hirata as Sohei Masui
Age at release: 37
Hiroshi Hasegawa as Ronin
Age at release: 37
Jun'ichirō Mukai as Samurai
Age at release: 37
Naoya Kusakawa as Sharp Eyes Man
Age at release: 35
Yasuzō Ogawa as Ronin
Age at release: 32
Kōji Iwamoto as Ronin
Age at release: 32
Nadao Kirino as Samurai
Age at release: 32
Shirō Ōtsuji as Kaname Kojima
Age at release: 29
Masaya Nihei as Ronin
Age at release: 24
Chōtarō Tōgin as Seiichi Morikawa
Age at release: 23
Toshio Kurosawa as Katsunoshin Itamura
Age at release: 20
Chūsha Ichikawa as Sahyōnosuke Matsudaira
Age at release: Unknown
Komazō Ichikawa as Shuzen Nakano
Age at release: Unknown