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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, sparking civil unrest and the major political maneuvering that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. The film follows Tetsuro Tamba, an ambitious, masterless samurai whose .. Read more

Starring	Tetsuro Tamba, Eiji Okada, Eitaro Ozawa
Director	Masahiro Shinoda
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

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Assassination

Starring	Tetsuro Tamba, Eiji Okada, Eitaro Ozawa
Director	Masahiro Shinoda
Studio	EUREKA ENTERTAINMENT LTD
Original title	Ansatsu
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 44 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama, World Cinema
Language	DVD: Japanese
Subtitles	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1964 To Rent: DVD: 23 Jan 2006

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  Thanks to Eureka Video and their Masters of Cinema Series, fans of Japanese cinema are being given the opportunity to view some of the very best of Japan's ... read more »
  
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  - 05 Oct 2006 at 14:10
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  Samurai action with a brain
  
  I hope that true film fans seek out the great Samurai movies from Japan made in the 1940s and 1950s as these are the true films that are not purely stylistic ... read more »
  
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  A good film, but infinitely complicated
  
  In the useful Alex Cox introduction to this film, he says that anyone without a good knowledge of mid-nineteenth century Japanese politics is unlikely to be ... read more »
  
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  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, sparking civil unrest and the major political maneuvering that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. The film follows Tetsuro Tamba, an ...