Samurai Assassin 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. Details Casts Title Samurai Assassin Release Date 1965-01-03 Runtime 02 Hours 02 Minutes Genres Drama Action History Production Companies TOHO, Mifune Productions Production Countries Japan Toshirō Mifune Tsuruchiyo Niiro Keiju Kobayashi Einosuke Kurihara Yūnosuke Itō Kenmotsu Hoshino Michiyo Aratama Okiku / Princess Kiku Eijirō Tōno Masagorō Kisoya Tatsuyoshi Ehara Ichigorō Hayama Tadao Nakamaru Shigezo Inada Kaoru Yachigusa Mitsu Haruko Sugimura Tsuru Nami Tamura Yae Shirō Ōtsuji Kaname Kojima Yoshio Inaba Keijiro Sumita Akihiko Hirata Sohei Masui Hideyo Amamoto Matazaburo Hagiwara Ikio Sawamura Tatsukichi Bisenya Chōtarō Tōgin Seiichi Morikawa Yasuzō Ogawa Ronin Masaya Nihei Ronin Toshio Kurosawa Katsunoshin Itamura Matsumoto Hakuō I Naosuke Ii Susumu Fujita Tatewaki Todo Hiroshi Hasegawa Ronin Chūsha Ichikawa Sahyōnosuke Matsudaira Komazō Ichikawa Shuzen Nakano Kōji Iwamoto Ronin Nadao Kirino Samurai Naoya Kusakawa Sharp Eyes Man Jun'ichirō Mukai Samurai Takashi Shimura Narihisa Ichijō Yoshibumi Tajima Samurai Mitsugu Terashima Chuzaemon Nishikawa Fujio Tokita Ronin Yasuhisa Tsutsumi Sumoya Manager Yurie Hidaka Kan Hōshō Nagayo Kita Ren Yamamoto