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