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The Fall of Ako Castle
1978, Oct 28
2h 39m
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe. Lord Asano was goaded, or tricked, into drawing his sword inside the Shogun's palace -- a crime which carried the death penalty. The newly installed Shogun was furious at Asano and ordered all his clan's assets seized, meaning some 20,000 samurai and commoners were unemployed and landless at a stroke. Forty-seven of these ronin (masterless samurai) banded together to take attempt revenge on Lord Kira, who had goaded Asano into drawing his sword.
Directed by
Kinji Fukasaku
Minori Terada
Gengo Ohtaka
Sonny Chiba
Fuwa Kazuemon
Toshirō Mifune
Tsuchiya Michinao
Mieko Harada
Hatsu Hashimoto
Tetsuro Tamba
Yanagisawa
Mariko Okada
Riku Ohishi
Yoko Natsuki
Osen
Yoshiko Mita
Akuri
Toru Minegishi
Yasubei Horibe
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Oishi Kuranosuke
Tsunehiko Watase
Kobayashi Heihachiro
Yoshi Katō
Yahei Horibe
Nobuo Kaneko
Kira
Hideji Ōtaki
Yamada
Kyōko Enami
Ukibashi
Junkichi Orimoto
Tokubei
Mikio Narita
Kato
Shinsuke Ashida
Shikibe
Hiroki Matsukata
Denhachiro Tamon
Seizō Fukumoto
Takuya Fujioka
Kurobei Ohno
Kensaku Morita
Jujiro
Sanae Nakahara
Todano tsubone
Teruhiko Saigō
Asano
Masaomi Kondo
Hashimoto Heizaemon
Harumi Sone
Torii
Jun Fujimaki
Yajuemon
Shōji Yasui
Uemon
Ken Nishida
Daigagu Asano
Mizuho Suzuki
Narrator
Go Wakabayashi
Araki
Shinsuke Mikimoto
Ryo Tamura
Uesugi
Ryō Nishida
Yûsuke Satô
Yagashira
Maki Tachibana
Shino Ohtaka
Matagoro Nakamura III
Date Sakyōnosuke
Kagari Asakawa
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