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Samurai Assassin is a 1964 Japanese movie directed by Kihachi Okamoto and starring Toshiro Mifune, Koshiro Matsumoto, Yunosuke Ito, and Michiyo Aratama.

Samurai Assassin 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. It is a typical samurai movie, with lots of conversation, beautiful black and white photography and a swordfight at the end. This movie is rather quiet in as far as the main part of the action goes. Assassins waiting by a gate where a high lord is supposed to come through any minute, but he is late. The movie tells the story of Niiro Tsurichiyo (Mifune) as the illegimate son of a powerful nobleman, and the way of his life that made him a swordfighter but also a social outcast.

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