
Samurai AssassinHere, at the Gates of Sakurada, the Shogunate will fall.
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, tairÅ of the Tokugawa shogunate and responsible for their misfortune.
DirectorKihachi Okamoto
WritersJirÅmasa Gunji, Shinobu Hashimoto