7.1 NR1 hour 44 minsAssassination 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.
Hachiro Kiyokawa
Lord Matsudaira
Premier Itakura
Tadasaburo Sasaki
Oren
Otojirô Kôno
Shingo Miyagawa
Shôzô Ishizaka
Kyûô Udono
Tetsutaro Yamaoka
Inaba
Hisamizu Shimazu
Jûjirô Ishii
Detective Yoshikichi
Sankichi
Keijirô Aizawa
Kamo Serizawa
Shûji Sakuma
Shôhei Imuta
