Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Tatewaki Koriyama defects from the shogun to a rival clan, however, the world of swordsmen is thrown into turmoil. After Sasuke is unwittingly drawn into the conflict, he tracks Tatewaki, while a mysterious, white-hooded figure seems to hunt them both. By tale’s end, no one is who they seemed to be, and the truth is far more personal than anyone suspected. Director Masahiro Shinoda’s Samurai Spy, filled with clan intrigue, ninja spies, and multiple double crosses, marks a bold stylistic departure from swordplay film convention.
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Kōji Takahashi as Sarutobi Sasuke
Shintarō Ishihara as Saizo Kirigakure
Eitarō Ozawa as Shigeyuki Koremura
Kei Satō as Takanosuke Nojiri
Rokkō Toura as Mitsuaki Inamura
Tetsuro Tamba as Sakon Takatani
Eiji Okada as Tatewaki Koriyama
Seiji Miyaguchi as Jinnai-Kazutaka Horikawa
Minoru Hodaka as Genba Kuni
Misako Watanabe as Okiwa
Yasunori Irikawa as Yashiro Kobayashi
Jitsuko Yoshimura as Omiyo
Jun Hamamura as Joshin Temple Priest
Takeshi Kusaka as Narrator
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