Assassination

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.

Tetsurō Tamba

Hachiro Kiyokawa

Eiji Okada

Lord Matsudaira

Eitarō Ozawa

Premier Itakura

Isao Kimura

Tadasaburo Sasaki

Shima Iwashita

Oren, Kiyokawa's sweetheart

Keiji Sada

Takeshi Kusaka

Sumio Takatsu

Otojirô Kôno

Muga Takewaki

Shingo Miyagawa

Tamotsu Hayakawa

Shôzô Ishizaka

Fujio Suga

Kyûô Udono

Takanobu Hozumi

Tetsutaro Yamaoka

Hideo Kidokoro

Inaba

Tetsuji Takechi

Hisamizu Shimazu

Gen Shimizu

Jûjirô Ishii

Yoshito Yamaji

Detective Yoshikichi

Hiroshi Aoyama

Sankichi

Shin'ya Mizushima

Keijirô Aizawa