Samurai Assassin

Original title: 侍

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

1965 ★ 7.3 122 min IMDb Japanese Kihachi Okamoto

Overview

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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