Your rating
Play trailer
68
TMDB
29
-
V&R
0
Favorites
Watchlist
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
Sonny Chiba
Fuwa Kazuemon
Tetsuro Tamba
Yanagisawa
Mieko Harada
Hatsu Hashimoto
Toru Minegishi
Yasubei Horibe
Hiroki Matsukata
Denhachiro Tamon
Sanae Nakahara
Todano tsubone
Yoshi Katō
Yahei Horibe
Tsunehiko Watase
Kobayashi Heihachiro
Mizuho Suzuki
Narrator
Takuya Fujioka
Kurobei Ohno
Mariko Okada
Riku Ohishi
Minori Terada
Gengo Ohtaka
Seizō Fukumoto
Mikio Narita
Kato
Yoshiko Mita
Akuri
Kensaku Morita
Jujiro
Yoko Natsuki
Osen
Kyōko Enami
Ukibashi
Hideji Ōtaki
Yamada
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Oishi Kuranosuke
Jun Fujimaki
Yajuemon
Shinsuke Ashida
Shikibe
Yûsuke Satô
Yagashira
Teruhiko Saigō
Asano
Masaomi Kondo
Hashimoto Heizaemon
Nobuo Kaneko
Kira
Harumi Sone
Torii
Ken Nishida
Daigagu Asano
Ryo Tamura
Uesugi
Junkichi Orimoto
Tokubei
Go Wakabayashi
Araki
Shōji Yasui
Uemon
Shinsuke Mikimoto
Ryō Nishida
Maki Tachibana
Shino Ohtaka
Matagoro Nakamura III
Date Sakyōnosuke
Kagari Asakawa
0