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The Age of Assassins
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Kihachi Okamoto
Starring	Tatsuya Nakadai
Cinematography	Rokuro Nishigaki
Edited by	Yoshitami Kuroiwa
Production company	Toho
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	4 February 1967 (1967-02-04)
Running time	99 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

The Age of Assassins (殺人狂時代, Satsujinkyō jidai) is a 1967 Japanese film directed by Kihachi Okamoto.

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

Release

The Age of Assassins was released in Japan on February 4, 1967. The film was released in the United States by Toho International with an international title of Epoch of Murder Madness in 1967.

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."

References

Footnotes

1. Galbraith IV 2008, p. 236.
2. Galbraith IV 1996, p. 95.
3. Desjardins, Chris (27 May 2005). Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film. I.B.Tauris. p. 90. ISBN 9781845110901. Retrieved 6 November 2016.

Sources

• Galbraith IV, Stuart (1996). The Japanese Filmography: 1900 through 1994. McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0032-3.
• Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1461673743. Retrieved October 29, 2013.

External links

• The Age of Assassins at IMDb
• The Age of Assassins at Rotten Tomatoes

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