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Samurai Assassin

1965 122 min Drama · Action · History

Here, at the Gates of Sakurada, the Shogunate will fall.

You wait on a muddy road outside Edo Castle as rain starts to fall. A single, bloodied katana rests at your feet. Then the city’s chief enforcer rides past, untouched. The camera watches the crowd part like water, still and deep.

Directed by Kihachi Okamoto · Written by Shinobu Hashimoto

Starring Toshirō Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Yūnosuke Itō, Michiyo Aratama, Eijirō Tōno, Tatsuyoshi Ehara

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