Film · Drama, Action
The Great Killing (1964)
Heaven has no swords.
A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent on usurping the shogunate in the 17th century. A Shogunate Elder connives to rule Japan by making his puppet, the Shogun's brother Tsunashige, the next Shogun. The best strategist in Japan, Yamaga, leads a plot to stop the Elder, but his cabal is betrayed and most of the conspirators are captured and tortured.
- Director
- Eiichi Kudō
- Writers
- Norimichi Matsudaira, Kaneo Ikegami
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Release date
- June 3, 1964
- Original title
- 大殺陣
Cast
Tōru Abe
Mikijiro Hira
Yoshio Inaba
Chiezo Kataoka
Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Nami Munakata
Kōtarō Satomi
Minoru Ōki
Shirō Ōsaka
Hideo Sunazuka
Rinichi Yamamoto- Kōshirō Harada
Yuriko Mishima
Kayako Sono- Shunji Kasuga
- Masahiko Naruse
- Kiyoshi Kachi
- Masao Hori
Kenji Kusumoto
Hiroshi Kato
