Samurai Assassin
Here, at the Gates of Sakurada, the Shogunate will fall.
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1/3/1965Runtime
122 minsOverview
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate and responsible for their misfortune.
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A tightly wound historical thriller about displaced samurai bound by duty and grief, culminating in a moment of violent reckoning at the gates of power. The film moves with inexorable purpose toward its catastrophic climax, weighing the cost of honor against the weight of injustice.
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