Okamoto Kihachi’s Samurai Assassin screening at the JCCC
Hey guys, I just got the holiday newsletter for the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC) and noticed that they are screening Okamoto Kihachi’s “Samurai Assassin” at the JCCC on Thursday January 31 at 7:00PM. For JCCC members the admission fee is $5 and $7 for non-members.
Here is the description from the newsletter:
“Samurai Assassin is director Okamoto (Sword of Doom) Kihachi’s best film. It is also considered by many to be the best samurai film ever made!
On March 3, 1860, a group of 32 men assembled at the Sakurada Gates of the Edo Castle, and waited for Shogunate Elder li Naosuke to arrive. Their mission- ASSASSINATION!
Legendary actor Mifune Toshiro, in one of his greatest and most complex roles, stars as Niiro Tsuruchiyo, a ronin who has joined the conspiracy in the hopes that taking Elder li’s head will win him enough renown that one of the greatest Samurai houses will offer him a position. Fate has dealt Niiro many hard blows. The product of a youthful indiscretion, he doesn’t know who his father is. An ill-fated love affair has broken his heart and delivered him into abject poverty. All he has left is his sword and his burning desire to succeed. Nothing, not even the lives of his friends, matters more than becoming a real Samurai. But what Niiro does not know, as he waits in the snow for the arrival of the Elder, is that cruel fate has not yet finished toying with him!
This film is the first in a series of screening in 2008 to acknowledge the 150 anniversary of the bakumatsu and the birth
of modern Japan.”
For more information on the JCCC, their website is http://www.jccc.on.ca