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