The Great Killing

Heaven has no swords.

A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent on usurping the shogunate in the 17th century. A Shogunate Elder connives to rule Japan by making his puppet, the Shogun's brother Tsunashige, the next Shogun. The best strategist in Japan, Yamaga, leads a plot to stop the Elder, but his cabal is betrayed and most of the conspirators are captured and tortured.

• Release date
• June 3, 1964
• Runtime
• 118 min
• Genres
• Action, Drama
• Director
• Eiichi Kudō

Cast

Tōru Abe Mikijiro Hira Yoshio Inaba Chiezo Kataoka Chōichirō Kawarasaki Nami Munakata Kōtarō Satomi Minoru Ōki