
Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. At a time when assassination had become a disturbing political tool, Shinoda's film follows Hachiro Kiyokawa, an ambitious, masterless samurai whose allegiances drift dangerously between the Shogunate and the Emperor.
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Tetsuro Tamba as Hachiro Kiyokawa

Eiji Okada as Lord Matsudaira

Eitarō Ozawa as Premier Itakura

Isao Kimura as Tadasaburo Sasaki

Shima Iwashita as Oren

Keiji Sada as

Takeshi Kusaka as

Sumio Takatsu as Otojirô Kôno

Muga Takewaki as Shingo Miyagawa

Tamotsu Hayakawa as Shôzô Ishizaka

Fujio Suga as Kyûô Udono

Takanobu Hozumi as Tetsutaro Yamaoka

Hideo Kidokoro as Inaba

Tetsuji Takechi as Hisamizu Shimazu

Gen Shimizu as Jûjirô Ishii

Yoshito Yamaji as Detective Yoshikichi

Hiroshi Aoyama as Sankichi

Shin'ya Mizushima as Keijirô Aizawa

Kyoko Aoi as

Junkichi Orimoto as Kamo Serizawa

Minoru Hodaka as Shûji Sakuma

Yukio Ninagawa as Shôhei Imuta

Hiroshi Mizushima as

Akira Hanagami as

Jun Ooi as

Satarō Taki as

Omenosuke Ichikawa as

Kenzō Tanaka as

Ryokutarō Hanai as

Fujio Sasagawa as

Kenji Hayashi as

Kimie Hayashi as

Junko Hara as

Itoko Wakaura as

Kazuko Futaba as

Fusako Suzuki as
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