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Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Tatewaki Koriyama defects from the shogun to a rival clan, however, the world of swordsmen is thrown into turmoil. After Sasuke is unwittingly drawn into the conflict, he tracks Tatewaki, while a mysterious, white-hooded figure seems to hunt them both. By tale’s end, no one is who they seemed to be, and the truth is far more personal than anyone suspected. Director Masahiro Shinoda’s Samurai Spy, filled with clan intrigue, ninja spies, and multiple double crosses, marks a bold stylistic departure from swordplay film convention.
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Director
Writer
Producer
Music
Studio
Shochiku
Original Title
異聞猿飛佐助
Original Language
Japanese
Cast
Full credits →K
Kōji Takahashi
Sarutobi Sasuke
S
Shintarō Ishihara
Saizo Kirigakure
E
Eitarō Ozawa
Shigeyuki Koremura
K
Kei Satō
Takanosuke Nojiri
R
Rokkō Toura
Mitsuaki Inamura
T
Tetsuro Tamba
Sakon Takatani
E
Eiji Okada
Tatewaki Koriyama
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Seiji Miyaguchi
Jinnai-Kazutaka Horikawa
M
Minoru Hodaka
Genba Kuni
M
Misako Watanabe
Okiwa
Y
Yasunori Irikawa
Yashiro Kobayashi
J
Jitsuko Yoshimura
Omiyo
J
Jun Hamamura
Joshin Temple Priest
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Takeshi Kusaka
Narrator
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Hiroshi Aoyama
H
Hisanobu Ichikawa
K
Kentarō Imai
T
Taku Kido
S
Shin'ya Mizushima
H
Hideto Nakagawa
