The Great Killing
Heaven has no swords.
19641h 58mNo ratings yet
- Action
- Drama
Overview
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.
Keywords
- japan
- conspiracy
- samurai
- assassination
- 17th century
- jidaigeki
- edo period
- bushi
- chanbara
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 3, 1964
- Original language
- Japanese
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Toei Company,Toei Studios Kyoto
- Cast
- Tōru Abe,Mikijiro Hira,Yoshio Inaba,Chiezo Kataoka,Chōichirō Kawarasaki,Nami Munakata,Kōtarō Satomi,Minoru Ōki,Shirō Ōsaka,Hideo Sunazukaand 22 more
- Director
- Eiichi Kudō
- Cinematography
- Osamu Furuya
- Music
- Seiichi Suzuki
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0186939