The Age of Assassins
1967 Japanese film
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The Age of Assassins (Japanese: 殺人狂時代, Hepburn: Satsujinkyō jidai) is a 1967 Japanese film directed by Kihachi Okamoto.
- Tatsuya Nakadai
- Reiko Dan
- Hideo Sunazuka
- Hideyo Amamoto
- Keiichi Taki
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| Directed by | Kihachi Okamoto |
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| Cinematography | Rokuro Nishigaki |
| Edited by | Yoshitami Kuroiwa |
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| Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 99 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Plot
A nerdy young college instructor named Shinji Kikyo returns home one day to find himself the target of a mad assassin. Surviving somewhat miraculously, he fends off other assassins and, with the help of the reporter Keiko Tsurumaki and the car mechanic Bill Otomo, eventually discovers that a "population control" association is really an assassination squad led by Shogo Mizorogi, who has been training patients in a mental asylum to become killers. Along the way, it starts to appear that Shinji may not be the mild-mannered academic he seemed at first, but a well-trained secret agent.
Cast
| Tatsuya Nakadai | Shinji Kikyo |
| Reiko Dan | Keiko Tsurumaki |
| Hideo Sunazuka | Bill Otomo |
| Hideyo Amamoto | Shogo Mizorogi |
| Keiichi Taki | Ikeno |
| Seishirô Kuno | Man with crutch |
| Tatsuyoshi Ehara | Aochi (as Tatsuya Ebara) |
| Yasuzō Ogawa | Mabuchi |
| Atsuko Kawaguchi | Yumie Komatsu |
| Wataru Ōmae | Oba-Q |
| Shin Ibuki | Atom |
| Hiroshi Hasegawa | Solan |
| Masaya Nihei | Pappy |
Release
Reception
The critic Chris Desjardins has written that "Age of Assassins is another sharp-edged lampoon that works just as well as an action film, and compares favorably with such other brilliant, tongue-in-cheek mod sixties masterpieces as Elio Petri's The Tenth Victim and Seijun Suzuki's Branded to Kill."[3]
