Samurai Assassin
Dir: Okamoto Kihachi
Japan, 1965, 122minmins, 35mm
Cast: Mifune Toshiro, Kobayashi Keiju, Aratama Michiyo
In a fictionalization of an event leading up to the Sakurada Gate Incident in 1860, Mifune Toshiro plays a roguish ronin, Tsuruchiyo, who is recruited by a group of assassins to carry out a murder of the Shogun. Obsessed with proving his worth as a potential samurai, he beheads the Shogun in a ferocious rage, unknown to what the fate has in store for him. Director Okamoto orchestrates a horrifying massacre against eerie blanket of all-enveloping snow, leaving behind remorse as his disillusioned antihero disappears into the distance.
Hong Kong Arts Centre Louis Koo Cinema (Venue)
Chinese Subtitles
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