---
title: 'Samurai Assassin (1965)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Kihachi Okamoto'
released: '1965-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 122
genres:
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'Japan'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/samurai-assassin-1965'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059673/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Samurai Assassin (1965)

1965 · 122 min · History · Japan

Original title: 侍

## Synopsis

Samurai Assassin  is a 1965 Japanese film directed by Kihachi Okamoto and starring Toshiro Mifune, Koshiro Matsumoto, Yūnosuke Itō, and Michiyo Aratama. It is set in 1860, immediately before the Meiji Restoration changed Japanese society forever by doing away with the castes in society and reducing the position of the samurai class.

## Credits

- **Producer:** [Toshirō Mifune](https://cinepixo.com/people/toshiro-mifune)
- **Director:** [Kihachi Okamoto](https://cinepixo.com/people/kihachi-okamoto)
- **Screenplay:** [Shinobu Hashimoto](https://cinepixo.com/people/shinobu-hashimoto)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Masaru Sato](https://cinepixo.com/people/masaru-sato)
- **Editor:** [Yoshitami Kuroiwa](https://cinepixo.com/people/yoshitami-kuroiwa)

## Cast

- [Takashi Shimura](https://cinepixo.com/people/takashi-shimura)
- [Kaoru Yachigusa](https://cinepixo.com/people/kaoru-yachigusa)
- [Akihiko Hirata](https://cinepixo.com/people/akihiko-hirata)
- [Yūnosuke Itō](https://cinepixo.com/people/yunosuke-ito)
- [Keiju Kobayashi](https://cinepixo.com/people/keiju-kobayashi)
- [Hideyo Amamoto](https://cinepixo.com/people/hideyo-amamoto)
- [Eijirō Tōno](https://cinepixo.com/people/eijiro-tono)
- [Toshirō Mifune](https://cinepixo.com/people/toshiro-mifune)
- [Yoshio Inaba](https://cinepixo.com/people/yoshio-inaba)
- [Haruko Sugimura](https://cinepixo.com/people/haruko-sugimura)
- [Michiyo Aratama](https://cinepixo.com/people/michiyo-aratama)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/samurai-assassin-1965
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