Samurai Assassin (1965)

Original title

侍

Directed by

Kihachi Okamoto

Genre

historical film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 02m

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 63 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1860 Japan, a masterless samurai schemes to assassinate a powerful government official. His plan is complicated by political loyalties and his own past.

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What happens

Samurai Assassin (Japanese: 侍, Hepburn: Samurai) is a 1965 Japanese film directed by Kihachi Okamoto and starring Toshiro Mifune, Koshiro Matsumoto, Yūnosuke Itō, and Michiyo Aratama. It 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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