The Age of Assassins (1967) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language

1967 · 99 mins · Japanese

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Directed by

Kihachi Okamoto

Starring

Tatsuya Nakadai, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Reiko Dan, Hideyo Amamoto, Ben Hiura, Naoya Kusakawa

College instructor Shinji Kikyo returns home to find he is being hunted by a mad assassin. He survives, fends off further killers and, with reporter Keiko Tsurumaki and mechanic Bill Otomo, uncovers that a so‑called ‘population‑control’ group is really an assassination squad led by Shogo Mizorogi, who trains mental‑asylum patients to become killers.