Movie Drama
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.
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Chiezō Kataoka Shin'ichi Chiba Jiro Tamiya Sumiko Fuji Bunta Sugawara Teruo Yoshida Kyōsuke Machida Hiroshi Akutagawa Asao Koike Chōei Takahashi Bin Amatsu Masaya Takahashi Kotaro Satomi Hideo Sunazuka Haruo Tanaka Sumio Takatsu Kunio Murai Shin'ichirô Hayashi Yūji Nanto Juro Kara Minoru Hodaka Kiyoto Harada Michimaro Otabe Ryuji Kita Jushiro Kobayashi Kinji Nakamura Akira Shioji Tatsumi Hijikata Takashi Kanda Masaomi Kondo Shōtarō Hayashi Toshio Chiba Masao Hori Yasuhiko Shima Keiji Furuyama Hiroshi Aoyama Sen Okamichi Masaharu Arikawa Takeo Kamura Yûji Ichikawa Kunijirō Yanagi Kisho Nomura Haruo Miyatani Minken Karasawa Naotsugu Uzaki Takashi Noguchi Isao Takanami Hiroshi Kagawa Yoshinobu Hirose Hiroko Sakuramachi Yukie Kagawa Masumi Tachibana Aiko Mimasu Tomisaburō Wakayama Ken Takakura Koji Tsuruta
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