Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor (1969)
2h 2m
Running Time
December 5, 1969Release Date
Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor (1969)
2h 2m
Running Time
December 5, 1969Release Date
Plot.
Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a new age. But not all are content...The Shinsengumi, a small army of samurai, farmers and peasants, band together to do battle against the tide of history. Their leader, Isami Kondo is a man who rises from farmer to fighter to head the fierce Shinsengumi brigade. Using a stern hand and a heart of gold, he rallies his men in defense of the tottering Shogunate. But bloodshed and treachery lurk around every corner.
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Cast & Crew.
Toshirō Mifune
Isami Kondo
Keiju Kobayashi
Toshizo Hijikata
Kinya Kitaoji
Soji Okita
Yōko Tsukasa
Tsune
Rentaro Mikuni
Kamo Serizawa
Yuriko Hoshi
Otaka
Tadashi Sawashima
Director
Kan'emon Nakamura
Yasubo Katsu
Junko Ikeuchi
Oyuki
Kenrō Matsuura
Writer
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Fujita Arima
Hiroshi Inagaki
Producer
Umenosuke Nakamura
Keisuke Yamana
Yoshio Nishikawa
Producer
Yumiko Nogawa
Oume
Masaru Satō
Composer
Kazuo Yamada
Cinematographer
Takahiro Tamura
Koshitaro Ito
Katsuo Nakamura
Kisaburo Kawai
Mita Kitagawa
Kaori
Shinsuke Okimoto
Hachiro Shoga
Ichirō Nakatani
Moribe Tani
Ryunosuke Yamazaki
Sanosuke Harada
Kazuya Oguri
Naouemon Teshiro
Hiroshi Tanaka
Shinpachi Nagakura
Shinnosuke Ogata
Heisuke Todo
Seishirō Kuno
Gennosuke Inoue
Kiyoshi Taiki
Goro Hirayama
Hiroto Kimura
Shigesuke Hirama
Kyosuke Ugami
Jo Yamazaki
Jotaro Togami
Teizo Miyabe
Eijiro Soma
Ninmaro Yoshida
Yoshijiro Murata
Shuzo Ishikawa
Shin Tsuda
Executive
Naoki Yamazaki
Tokutaro Ikeda
Kinzō Shin
Honmeido
Ryôhei Uchida
Nishiki Shinmi
Yoshihiro Araki
Editor
Masamichi Ichikawa
Sound
Ko Iidaka
Still Photographer
Sachiro Sato
Lighting Technician
Hiroshi Ueda
Art Direction
Shigeo Kobayashi
Makeup Artist
Teruo Maru
Assistant Director
Kôichi Satô
Media.
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Wiki.
Shinsengumi (新撰組, AKA Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor or Band of Assassins) is a 1969 Japanese jidaigeki film.
The true story of the end of the Shogunate, the tragedy of the Shinsengumi is one of the best loved stories of Japanese history and has been adapted many times on stage, screen, television, and anime. This film, starring Toshiro Mifune with an all-star cast, stands out as one of the definitive adaptations of this classic tale.