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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.
Keywords
japan
samurai
based on novel or book
based on true story
sword fight
tokyo, japan
ronin
jidaigeki
edo period
19th century
bakumatsu
Casts
Toshirō Mifune
Tsuruchiyo Niiro
Keiju Kobayashi
Einosuke Kurihara
Yūnosuke Itō
Kenmotsu Hoshino
Michiyo Aratama
Okiku / Princess Kiku
Eijirō Tōno
Masagorō Kisoya
Tatsuyoshi Ehara
Ichigorō Hayama
Tadao Nakamaru
Shigezo Inada
Kaoru Yachigusa
Mitsu
Haruko Sugimura
Tsuru
Nami Tamura
Yae
Shirō Ōtsuji
Kaname Kojima
Yoshio Inaba
Keijiro Sumita
Akihiko Hirata
Sohei Masui
Hideyo Amamoto
Matazaburo Hagiwara
Ikio Sawamura
Tatsukichi Bisenya
Chōtarō Tōgin
Seiichi Morikawa
Yasuzō Ogawa
Ronin
Masaya Nihei
Ronin
Toshio Kurosawa
Katsunoshin Itamura
Matsumoto Hakuō I
Naosuke Ii
Susumu Fujita
Tatewaki Todo
Hiroshi Hasegawa
Ronin
Chūsha Ichikawa
Sahyōnosuke Matsudaira
Komazō Ichikawa
Shuzen Nakano
Kōji Iwamoto
Ronin
Nadao Kirino
Samurai
Naoya Kusakawa
Sharp Eyes Man
Jun'ichirō Mukai
Samurai
Takashi Shimura
Narihisa Ichijō
Yoshibumi Tajima
Samurai
Mitsugu Terashima
Chuzaemon Nishikawa
Fujio Tokita
Ronin
Yasuhisa Tsutsumi
Sumoya Manager
Yurie Hidaka
Kan Hōshō
Nagayo Kita
Ren Yamamoto
Crews
Jirōmasa Gunji
Book
Kihachi Okamoto
Director
Iwao Akune
Production Design
Shinobu Hashimoto
Screenplay
Ryū Kuze
Fight Choreographer
Masaru Satō
Original Music Composer
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Producer
Yoshitami Kuroiwa
Editor
Minoru Izumi
Special Effects
Michio Yamamoto
Assistant Director
Hiroshi Murai
Director of Photography
Backdrops & Posters
