
Julius Caesar(1953)
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but both have sorely underestimated Mark Antony.


“Assassination, right or wrong?”
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.

Chiezo Kataoka
Nissho Inoue

Sonny Chiba
Sho Onuma

Jirō Tamiya
Hitoshi Fujii

Sumiko Fuji
Takako

Bunta Sugawara
Heigo Asahi

Teruo Yoshida
Kurushima Tsuneki

Kyōsuke Machida

Hiroshi Akutagawa
Narrator (voice)

Asao Koike
Hatsutaro Ochiai

Chōei Takahashi
Daijiro Furuta
Memoir of Japanese Assassinations is a drama, history film released in 1969 exploring themes of assassination, japanese history. Directed by Sadao Nakajima, it stars Chiezo Kataoka, Sonny Chiba, Jirō Tamiya. This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.
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