The Great Killing (1964)
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.
Action
Drama
Cast & Crew
Tōru Abe
Mikijiro Hira
Yoshio Inaba
Chiezō Kataoka
Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Nami Munakata
Kōtarō Satomi
Minoru Ōki
Shirō Ōsaka
Hideo Sunazuka
Rinichi Yamamoto
Yuriko Mishima
Kayako Sono
Kenji Kusumoto
Hiroshi Kato
Masataka Iwao
Ryutaro Otomo
Eiichi Kudo
Director
Kaneo Ikegami
Writer
