
“Here, at the Gates of Sakurada, the Shogunate will fall.”
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate and responsible for their misfortune.
Release Date: 1/3/1965
Runtime: 122 minutes
Languages: Japanese
Director: Kihachi Okamoto
00Companies: TOHO, Mifune Productions
Countries: Japan
Kenmotsu Hoshino

Toshirō Mifune
Tsuruchiyo Niiro

Keiju Kobayashi
Einosuke Kurihara

Yūnosuke Itō
Kenmotsu Hoshino

Michiyo Aratama
Okiku / Princess Kiku

Eijirō Tōno
Masagorō Kisoya

Tatsuyoshi Ehara
Ichigorō Hayama

Tadao Nakamaru
Shigezo Inada

Kaoru Yachigusa
Mitsu

Haruko Sugimura
Tsuru

Nami Tamura
Yae

Shirō Ōtsuji
Kaname Kojima

Yoshio Inaba
Keijiro Sumita
1957