Assassination (1964 film)

1964 film

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Assassination

UK DVD Cover

Directed by| Masahiro Shinoda
Screenplay by| Nobuo Yamada[1]
Story by| Ryotaro Shiba[1]
Starring|

* Tetsuro Tamba
* Shima Iwashita
* Eitaro Ozawa

Cinematography| Masao Kosugi[1]
Music by| Toru Takemitsu[1]

Production
company

Shochiku[1]

Release date

* 1964 (1964) (Japan)

Running time

| 104 minutes[1]
Country| Japan

Assassination (暗殺, Ansatsu), also known as The Assassin, is a 1964 film directed by Masahiro Shinoda.[2][3][4][5]

## Release

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Assassination was released in Japan in 1964.[1] The film was released in the United States on October 30, 1964 by Shochiku Films of America.[1]

## Cast

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* Tetsurō Tamba – Hachirô Kiyokawa
* Shima Iwashita – Oren
* Isao Kimura – Tadasaburô Sasaki
* Eiji Okada – Lord Matsudaira
* Eitaro Ozawa – Premier Itakura
* Takanobu Hozumi – Tetsutaro Yamaoka
* Junkichi Orimoto – Kamo Serizawa
* Yukio Ninagawa – Shôhei Imuta
* Muga Takewaki \- Miyagawa
* Keiji Sada – Sakamoto Ryōma

## References

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### Footnotes

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1. ^ a b c d e f g h Galbraith IV 1996, p. 105.
2. ^ "暗殺". kotobannk. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
3. ^ "暗殺". Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
4. ^ "暗殺". 文化庁. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
5. ^ "暗殺". k松竹. 19 June 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2020.

### Sources

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* Galbraith IV, Stuart (1996). The Japanese Filmography: 1900 through 1994. McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0032-3.

## External links

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* Assassination essay by Joan Mellen at the Masters of Cinema website
* Assassination trailer at the Masters of Cinema website
* Assassination at IMDb
* (in Japanese) "暗殺 (Ansatsu)" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2007-07-16.

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Films directed by Masahiro Shinoda

* Killers on Parade (1961)
* Assassination (1964)
* Pale Flower (1964)
* With Beauty and Sorrow (1965)
* Samurai Spy (1965)
* Double Suicide (1969)
* The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan (1970)
* Silence (1971)
* The Petrified Forest (1973)
* Himiko (1974)
* Ballad of Orin (1977)
* Demon Pond (1979)
* MacArthur's Children (1984)
* Gonza the Spearman (1986)
* Childhood Days (1990)
* Sharaku (1995)
* Moonlight Serenade (1997)
* Owls' Castle (1999)
* Spy Sorge (2003)

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