Samurai Assassin (1965) on Netflix
NR19652h 2mActionAdventureDrama
Japan, 1860. Tsuruchiyo Niiro is a nobleman's illegitimate son and a social outcast. He joins the Mito clan's plot to kill the shogunate's tairō, Naosuke Ii, at the Sakurada Gate.
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Plot summary
In 1860, just before the Meiji Restoration, Naosuke Ii of Hikone, the shogunate's tairō, makes a choice for the appointment of the 14th shogun that turns the Satsuma, Mito and Choshu provinces against him. Ii answers with the Ansei Purge, which falls on his critics and ruins the men of the Mito clan. Those men gather at the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle to assassinate him. Among the conspirators is Tsuruchiyo Niiro, the illegitimate son of a powerful nobleman, a swordfighter who lives as a social outcast. The story comes from a novel inspired by the Sakuradamon incident of March 1860.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Samurai Assassin (1965)
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- The film was inspired by the real Sakuradamon incident of March 1860, when the feudal lord Ii Naosuke was assassinated outside the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle; the script was drawn from a novel built on that event.
