Action ·Drama · Japan · 1964 · 1h 58m

The Great Killing

大殺陣

Director

Cast

Tōru Abe as Mikijiro Hira as Yoshio Inaba as Chiezo Kataoka as Chōichirō Kawarasaki as Nami Munakata as

Crew

Osamu Furuya — Director of Photography Kozo Horiike — Editor Seiichi Suzuki — Original Music Composer Kaneo Ikegami — Writer Jiro Tomita — Production Design

Tagline

Heaven has no swords.

Synopsis

A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent on usurping the shogunate in the 17th century. A Shogunate Elder connives to rule Japan by making his puppet, the Shogun's brother Tsunashige, the next Shogun. The best strategist in Japan, Yamaga, leads a plot to stop the Elder, but his cabal is betrayed and most of the conspirators are captured and tortured.

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