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Samurai Assassin is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Kihachi Okamoto released in USA on 5 march 1965 with Toshiro Mifune
Samurai Assassin (1965)
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Add to a movie listSamurai 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.
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. He joins forces with the multiple clans against the Lord of Hikone, Sir Ii Kamonnokami Naosuke. Ii is the right hand of the shogunate and brought upon himself the wrath of the Satsuma, Mito, and Choshuu provinces after making an unpopular choice for the appointment of the 14th shogunate. Many critics arose after the controversial appointment, and Ii initiated the Ansei Purge to quiet critics of his choices. This, in turn, led to an assassination plot hatched by the three provinces in order to remove Li from his position of power. The shoguns also weeding out Ii's spies from the plot. The film is based on a novel, which in turn was inspired by the historical Sakuradamon incident, in which the feudal lord Ii Naosuke was assassinated outside the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle.
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Le Japon en 1860, à l'aube de l'Ère Meiji. Un groupe d'assassins a pour but d'éliminer un personnage important du pays. Ils suspectent la présence d'un traître parmi eux, et leurs doutes tombent sur Niiro, un ronin, et son ami Kurihara l'aristocrate.Actors
Toshiro Mifune
(Tsuruchiyo Niiro)
Keiju Kobayashi
(Einosuke Kurihara)
Michiyo Aratama
(Okiku / Princess Kiku)
Yoshio Inaba
(Keijiro Sumita)
Akihiko Hirata
(Sohei Masui)
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