Kihachi Okamoto

Kihachi Okamoto (岡本喜八 Okamoto Kihachi, 17 February 1923 – 19 February 2005) was a Japanese film director who has worked in several different genres, including jidaigeki. He was born in Yonago. He graduated from the Meiji University.

One of his most notable works is Samurai Assassin (1965) starring Toshiro Mifune, about a group of 19th Century political agitators planning to kill an important government official. The Japanese title is simply Samurai. Other works by Okamoto include The Sword of Doom (1966) and the anti-war film, The Human Bullet (1968).

External links

• Kihachi Okamoto at the Internet Movie Database
• JMDb profile (in Japanese)