Legend of the Assassin

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Masahiro Takase

Status Released

Release Date 1984-03-22

Storyline

The Saika clan, that had succeeded in battle against the large armies of Nobunaga and Hideyoshi, had in the Tokugawa era of Ieyasu, been driven into the mountains 7 generations later, forced into subsistence hunting. A man comes to them offering revenge: to assassinate current Tokugawa Shogun Yoshimune. (Made-for-TV movie)