

04/07/1964
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.

Tetsuro Tamba
as Hachiro Kiyokawa

Eiji Okada
as Lord Matsudaira

Eitarō Ozawa
as Premier Itakura

Isao Kimura
as Tadasaburo Sasaki

Shima Iwashita
as Oren

Keiji Sada
as

Takeshi Kusaka
as

Sumio Takatsu
as Otojirô Kôno

Muga Takewaki
as Shingo Miyagawa

Tamotsu Hayakawa
as Shôzô Ishizaka

Fujio Suga
as Kyûô Udono

Takanobu Hozumi
as Tetsutaro Yamaoka

Hideo Kidokoro
as Inaba

Tetsuji Takechi
as Hisamizu Shimazu

Gen Shimizu
as Jûjirô Ishii

Yoshito Yamaji
as Detective Yoshikichi

Hiroshi Aoyama
as Sankichi

Shin'ya Mizushima
as Keijirô Aizawa

Kyoko Aoi
as

Junkichi Orimoto
as Kamo Serizawa

Minoru Hodaka
as Shûji Sakuma

Yukio Ninagawa
as Shôhei Imuta

Hiroshi Mizushima
as

Akira Hanagami
as

Jun Ooi
as

Satarō Taki
as

Omenosuke Ichikawa
as

Kenzō Tanaka
as

Ryokutarō Hanai
as

Fujio Sasagawa
as

Kenji Hayashi
as

Kimie Hayashi
as

Junko Hara
as

Itoko Wakaura
as

Kazuko Futaba
as

Fusako Suzuki
as
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