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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