Assassination
Year: 1964
Runtime: 104 mins
Language: Japanese
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
The story opens in 1853 when the arrival of the “four black ships” in Edo Bay sparks civil unrest and a power struggle that ends the Tokugawa shogunate. In this volatile climate where political assassination is a feared tool, Shinoda’s film follows Hachiro Kiyokawa, a masterless samurai whose loyalties swing between the shogunate and the emperor.
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