Kihachi Okamoto
Director

February 17 to March 3, 1860, inside Edo castle. A group of assassins wait by Sakurada Gate to kill the lord of the House of Ii, a powerful man in the Tokugawa government, which has ruled Japan for 300 years. They suspect a traitor in their midst, and their suspicions fall on Niiro, an impoverished ronin who dreams of samurai status, and Kurihara, an aristocratic samurai who befriends Niiro. Niiro longs to identify his father, knowing he is a high-ranking official who will disclose himself only if Niiro achieves samurai status. With American ships in Japan's harbors, cynicism among the assassins, and change in the air, Niiro resolves to reach ends that may prove ephemeral.
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Kihachi Okamoto
Director

Toshirô Mifune
Tsuruchiyo Niiro

Keiju Kobayashi
Einosuke Kurihara

Yûnosuke Itô
Kenmotsu Hoshino

Eijirô Tôno
Masagorô Kisoya

Tadao Nakamaru
Shigezo Inada

Kaoru Yachigusa
Mitsu

Haruko Sugimura
Tsuru

Yoshio Inaba
Keijiro Sumita

Akihiko Hirata
Sohei Masui

Hideyo Amamoto
Matazaburo Hagiwara

Ikio Sawamura
Tatsukichi Bisenya

Chôtarô Tôgin
Seiichi Morikawa

Michiyo Aratama
Okiku
Nami Tamura
Yae
Tatsuyoshi Ehara
Ichigoro Hayama
Yasuzô Ogawa
Ronin
Masaya Nihei
Ronin

Michiyo Aratama
Kikuhime
Shirô Ôtsuji
Kaname Kojima