Assassination (1964)

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***Assassination***  (暗殺,    *Ansatsu*?) is a 1964 Japanese drama film produced by Shochiku Company Ltd. It was released to Japanese theaters on October 30, 1964.

## Plot

The story of Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships", the foreign steamboats of Commander Matthew Perry, anchored at Edo Bay. Massive civil unrest followed, and the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate's time in power had arrived. Hachiro Kiyokawa, an assassin whose loyalties shift whenever it suits him, capitalizes on this chaotic time in Japan's political history.

## Cast

* Hachiro Kiyokawa: Tetsuro Tamba
* Lotus: Shima Iwashita
* Main tax assistant Matsudaira : Eiji Okada (narrative)
* Taizaburo Sasaki : Isao Kimura
* Shuzo Ishizaka : Tamotsu Hayakawa
* Suo Itakura : Eitaro Ozawa
* Udono Kyuo : Fujio Suga
* Shingo Miyagawa: Muga Takewaki
* Tetsutaro Yamaoka : Takanobu Hozumi
* Inaba: Hideo Kidokoro
* Shigejiro Ishii: Gen Shimizu
* Awakening Kakitsu: Yoshindo Yamaji
* Miyoshi: Hiroshi Aoyama
* Keijiro Aizawa: Shinya Mizushima
* Sawa Yamaoka: Kyoko Aoi
* Hisamitsu Shimazu : Tetsuji Takechi
* Serizawa Kamo : Junkichi Orimoto
* Otojiro Kono: Sumio Takatsu
* Shuji Sakuma: Minoru Hodaka
* Shohei Imuda : Yukio Ninagawa
* Kihachiro Narahara : Takeshi Kusaka
* Shinshichi Arima : Hiroshi Mizushima
* Kenwaka: Hikaru Tateoka
* : Amano Lab
* : Takao Shigetomi
* : Akira Hanaue
* : Jun Oi
* : Shozaburo Aihara
* : Kozo Ando
* : Kazuya Doi
* : Sataro Taki
* : Takaaki Kadota
* : Keiichi Taki
* : Shin Nakahara
* : Kunichika Nagai
* : Omenosuke Ichikawa
* : Satoshi Nishida
* : Kenzo Tanaka
* : Akio Miyajima
* : Entaro Hanai
* : Shinpachi Kura
* : Kenji Nishinomiya
* : Jun Kajima
* : Isao Shizume
* : Kazuo Ohkita
* : Minoru Miyagi
* : Kozaburo Takami
* : Kenjiro Nakase
* : Soshiro Matsumoto
* : Fujio Sasagawa
* : Asaoka
* : Takaoka Seikei
* : Teruo Sudo
* : Kenji Hayashi
* : Mikie Hayashi
* : Junko Hara
* : Yuki Kayama
* : Itoko Wakaura
* : Kazuko Futaba
* : Reiko Kawai
* : Sakae Hamaoka
* : Fusako Suzuki
* Ryoma Sakamoto: Keiji Sada (special appearance)

## Staff

* Director: Masahiro Shinoda
* Production: Shizuo Yamanouchi
* Original: Ryotaro Shiba "End of the Edo Period / Strange Hachiro"
* Screenplay: Nobuo Yamada
* Photo: Masao Kosugi
* Art: Junichi Ohsumi
* Music: Toru Takemitsu
* Assistant Director: Masahisa Sadanaga

The music in this movie uses only two instruments , the shakuhachi and the prepared piano , and is put together as a soundtrack after tape modulation processing. Performed by Katsuya Yokoyama (shakuhachi) and Toshi Ichiyanagi (prepared piano).

## Overview

It is a movie adaptation of Ryotaro Shiba 's novel "Strange Hachiro". Set in the time of turmoil at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate , he deals with the half-life of Fuunji and Hachiro Kiyokawa , who put themselves in a fierce political struggle and did their best in the capital of Kyoto without a clan to support them. The starring Tamba is a half-confident and gradually fanned, and he plays the growing Kiyokawa in a big language until he takes over the world and opens the Kiyokawa Shogunate. Also Isao Kimura and Shima Iwashita et al demonstrated a strong personality, it has left an impression. In addition, Keiji Sada , who made a special appearance , appears as a storyteller who looks at such human patterns coldly, and plays the role of Ryoma Sakamoto . Director Shinoda is said to have been conscious of the Japanese New Wave in this work, imitating the production technique of Orson Welles 's " Citizen Kane ", which he was devoted to many times in the work , and experimentally directing it in historical works. I practiced it.

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