The Great Killing

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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  Tōru Abe
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  Mikijiro Hira
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  Yoshio Inaba
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  Chiezo Kataoka
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  Chōichirō Kawarasaki
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  Nami Munakata
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  Kōtarō Satomi
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  Minoru Ōki
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  Shirō Ōsaka
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  Hideo Sunazuka