Kill! (Kiru)

1968 · Movie · 109 min. · Japan

Tatsuya Nakadai stars as Genta, a former samurai who became disillusioned with the samurai lifestyle and left it behind to become a wandering yakuza (gang) member. He meets Hanjiro Tabata (Etsushi Takahashi) a farmer who wants to become a samurai to escape his powerless existence. Genta and Tabata wind up on opposite sides of clan intrigue when seven members of a local clan assassinate their chancellor (synopsis from wikipedia).

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Etsushi Takahashi · Shigeru Kôyama · Akira Kubo · Seishiro Kuno · Nami Tamura · Tadao Nakamaru · Eijirô Tono · Isao Hashimoto · Yoshio Tsuchiya · Yuriko Hoshi · Shin Kishida · Atsuo Nakamura · Eisei Amamoto · Akira Hamada · Takeo Chii · Ben Hiura · Susumu Kurobe · Masao Imafuku · Hiroshi Hasegawa · Yutaka Nakayama · Ryôsuke Kagawa