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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
Mieko Harada
Hatsu Hashimoto
Minori Terada
Gengo Ohtaka
Toshirō Mifune
Tsuchiya Michinao
Sonny Chiba
Fuwa Kazuemon
Mariko Okada
Riku Ohishi
Tetsuro Tamba
Yanagisawa
Shinsuke Ashida
Shikibe
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Oishi Kuranosuke
Mikio Narita
Kato
Tsunehiko Watase
Kobayashi Heihachiro
Hiroki Matsukata
Denhachiro Tamon
Nobuo Kaneko
Kira
Yoshiko Mita
Akuri
Takuya Fujioka
Kurobei Ohno
Toru Minegishi
Yasubei Horibe
Harumi Sone
Torii
Kensaku Morita
Jujiro
Junkichi Orimoto
Tokubei
Ryo Tamura
Uesugi
Kyōko Enami
Ukibashi
Yoshi Katō
Yahei Horibe
Seizō Fukumoto
Sanae Nakahara
Todano tsubone
Yoko Natsuki
Osen
Hideji Ōtaki
Yamada
Mizuho Suzuki
Narrator
Teruhiko Saigō
Asano
Go Wakabayashi
Araki
Masaomi Kondo
Hashimoto Heizaemon
Ken Nishida
Daigagu Asano
Jun Fujimaki
Yajuemon
Shōji Yasui
Uemon
Yûsuke Satô
Yagashira
Ryō Nishida
Shinsuke Mikimoto
Maki Tachibana
Shino Ohtaka
Matagoro Nakamura III
Date Sakyōnosuke
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