Tenchu!

Name: Tenchu!
Released: 1969
Rating: 67.84
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Mitsuko Baishô, Yûjirô Ishihara, Shintarô Katsu, Yukio Mishima

1969

Drama, Action

2h 20m

Izo Okada, a ronin (masterless samurai), desperately seeks a way out of his financial straits. He allies himself with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader, Takechi, and imagines that he has come up in the world. But Takechi makes Izo a killer and a puppet, filled with self-loathing and a need to stop Takechi. (imdb)

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Hitokiri

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Japan

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Japanese

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Tenchu!

1969

Drama, Action

2h 20m

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TheDenizen

Rated 06 Jan 2013

Shintaro Katsu stars as real life Edo period assassin Izo Okada in this tense and dramatic biopic by Hideo Gosha. Katsu gives the strongest and most versatile acting performance of his life as the ragged samurai who is honed into a ruthless killer by his superiors before being inevitably betrayed. Featuring excellent direction, arresting visual composition and some fantastic bloody swordplay, this is an all time classic samurai film.

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whatismyname

Rated 12 Feb 2010

Ended quite differently than I thought it would. Overall a decent samurai film. I originally wanted to watch my first Yukio Mishima film, picked the wrong one, he's only in it for 5 minutes. Pleasant surprise seeing both Tatsuya Nakadai and Shintarô Katsu together.

Rated 12 Feb 2010

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