is a 1967 Japanese film directed by

Kihachi Okamoto was a Cinema of Japan, Japanese film director who worked in several different film genre, genres. Career Born in Yonago, Tottori, Yonago, Okamoto attended Meiji University, but was drafted into the Air Force 1943 and entered World War II, an exp ...

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

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* * Films directed by Kihachi Okamoto Japanese black-and-white films Toho films 1960s Japanese films {{1960s-Japan-film-stub