Kill! (1968)
1968 film by Kihachi Okamoto
- Released
- 22 June 1968
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Genre
- Jidaigeki (period dramas)
- Director
- Kihachi Okamoto
- Screenplay
- Shūgorō Yamamoto
- Producer
- Tomoyuki Tanaka
- Music
- Masaru Sato
- Editing
- Yoshitami Kuroiwa
- Starring
- Tatsuya Nakadai, Eijirō Tōno, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Shigeru Kōyama, Akira Kubo, Hideyo Amamoto, Yuriko Hoshi, Shin Kishida
- Running time
- 115 minutes
- Distributor
- Toho
Kill! (Japanese: 斬る, Hepburn: Kiru) is a 1968 Japanese comedy-chambara film directed by Kihachi Okamoto. The film had a screenplay written by Akira Murao and Okamoto, and is based on the story Torideyama no jushichinichi (lit. '17 Days at Fort Mountain') in Yamamoto Shugoro zenshu (1964) by Shūgorō Yamamoto.
Cast
- Tatsuya Nakadai
- Eijirō Tōno
- Yoshio Tsuchiya
- Shigeru Kōyama
- Akira Kubo
- Hideyo Amamoto
- Yuriko Hoshi
- Shin Kishida
- Atsuo Nakamura
More films directed by Kihachi Okamoto
- Warring Clans 1963
- Red Lion 1969
- Vengeance for Sale 2002
External links
Facts from Wikidata Q3196602 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.