Drama
Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. At a time when assassination had become a disturbing political tool, Shinoda's film follows Hachiro Kiyokawa, an ambitious, masterless samurai whose allegiances drift dangerously between the Shogunate and the Emperor.
Directed by
Masahiro Shinoda
Gen Shimizu
Jûjirô Ishii
Eiji Okada
Lord Matsudaira
Junkichi Orimoto
Kamo Serizawa
Yukio Ninagawa
Shôhei Imuta
Shima Iwashita
Oren
Yoshito Yamaji
Detective Yoshikichi
Tetsuro Tamba
Hachiro Kiyokawa
Fujio Suga
Kyûô Udono
Muga Takewaki
Shingo Miyagawa
Takanobu Hozumi
Tetsutaro Yamaoka
Keiji Sada
Isao Kimura
Tadasaburo Sasaki
Minoru Hodaka
Shûji Sakuma
Tamotsu Hayakawa
Shôzô Ishizaka
Eitarō Ozawa
Premier Itakura
Takeshi Kusaka
Sumio Takatsu
Otojirô Kôno
Hideo Kidokoro
Inaba
Hiroshi Aoyama
Sankichi
Shin'ya Mizushima
Keijirô Aizawa
Kyoko Aoi
Hiroshi Mizushima
Akira Hanagami
Jun Ooi
Satarō Taki
Omenosuke Ichikawa
Kenzō Tanaka
Ryokutarō Hanai
Fujio Sasagawa
Kenji Hayashi
Kimie Hayashi
Junko Hara
Itoko Wakaura
Kazuko Futaba
Fusako Suzuki

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