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The Great Killing
1964, Jun 03
1h 58m
A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent on usurping the shogunate in the 17th century. A Shogunate Elder connives to rule Japan by making his puppet, the Shogun's brother Tsunashige, the next Shogun. The best strategist in Japan, Yamaga, leads a plot to stop the Elder, but his cabal is betrayed and most of the conspirators are captured and tortured.
Directed by
Eiichi Kudō
Written by
Kaneo Ikegami
Kōtarō Satomi
Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Tōru Abe
Yoshio Inaba
Rinichi Yamamoto
Ryutaro Otomo
Mikijiro Hira
Minoru Ōki
Chiezo Kataoka
Kayako Sono
Hideo Sunazuka
Kenji Kusumoto
Shirō Ōsaka
Yuriko Mishima
Masataka Iwao
Nami Munakata
Hiroshi Kato
Kōshirō Harada
Shunji Kasuga
Masahiko Naruse
Kiyoshi Kachi
Masao Hori
Kazutarō Kuni
Shinnosuke Ogata
Harue Yasuki
Haruhiko Nishi
Kyōichi Hara
Kenji Egi
Shôtarô Kizuki
Hajime Nagoya
Reiichi Hatanaka
Kunijirō Yanagi
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