The Age of Assassins

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 reporter Keiko Tsurumaki and car mechanic Bill Otomo, eventually discovering that a "population control" association is really an assassination squad led by Shogo Mizorogi, who has been training patients of a mental asylum to become killers.

Director: Kihachi Okamoto

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Reiko Dan, Hideo Sunazuka, Hideyo Amamoto, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Yasuzō Ogawa, Masaya Nihei, Seishirō Kuno

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