Samurai Assassin (1965)
With Toshirō Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Michiyo Aratama, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Yūnosuke Itō, Eijirō Tōno, Kaoru Yachigusa
Directed by Kihachi Okamoto
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.
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