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The Great Killing
Film / 1964

The Great Killing

Directed by Eiichi Kudō
ActionDrama

★ 7.3/10Audience rating

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.

The story

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.

In the same saga

Kudo's Samurai Revolution Trilogy

In release order

Cast

Tōru Abe Mikijiro Hira Yoshio Inaba Chiezo Kataoka Chōichirō Kawarasaki Nami Munakata Kōtarō Satomi Minoru Ōki Shirō Ōsaka Hideo Sunazuka Rinichi Yamamoto Kōshirō Harada
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Yuriko Mishima Kayako Sono Shunji Kasuga Masahiko Naruse Kiyoshi Kachi Masao Hori Kenji Kusumoto Hiroshi Kato Kazutarō Kuni Shinnosuke Ogata Harue Yasuki Haruhiko Nishi Kyōichi Hara Kenji Egi Masataka Iwao Shôtarô Kizuki Hajime Nagoya Reiichi Hatanaka Kunijirō Yanagi Ryutaro Otomo

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