Eiichi KUDO
Thirteen Assassins
十三人の刺客
Nippon Retro ²
Sadistic feudal lord Matsudaira rapes a woman and kills her husband. Due to his position as the younger brother to the shogun, the affair is hushed up. A government official considers the continuous misconduct a threat to the samurai class and secretly hires Shinzaemon to assassinate the lord. This opens a compelling, elaborately produced game of cat-and-mouse, which was remade in 2010 by Takashi MIIKE.
十三人の刺客
13 nin no shikaku
Japan 1963
125 minutes
Production
Toei
World sales
Toei
Cast
Chiezo KATAOKA, Kotaro SATOMI, Ryohei UCHIDA, Kantaro SUGA, Kanjuro ARASHI