| The Loyal 47 Ronin | |
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 Japanese movie poster | |
| Directed by | Kunio Watanabe |
| Screenplay by | Kunio Watanabe Fuji Yahiro Masaharu Matsumura Toshio Tamikado |
| Produced by | Masaichi Nagata |
| Cinematography | Takashi Watanabe |
| Music by | Ichirō Saitō |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Daiei Film |
Release date |
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Running time | 166 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
The Loyal 47 Ronin (忠臣蔵, Chūshingura) is a 1958 color jidaigeki (period drama) Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe. With box office earnings of ¥410 million, it was the most successful film of 1958 in Japan.[1] Furthermore, it was the second-highest-grossing film of the 1950s in Japan.[2]
Plot
The Loyal 47 Ronin tells the true tale of a group of samurai who became rōnin (leaderless samurai) after their daimyō (feudal lord) Asano Naganori was compelled to commit seppuku (ritual suicide) for assaulting a court official, Kira Yoshinaka, who had insulted him. After carefully planning for over a year, they execute a daring assault on their sworn enemy's estate, and exact their revenge, knowing that they themselves would be forced to share their Lord's fate to atone for their crime.
Cast
- Kazuo Hasegawa as Ōishi Kuranosuke (Ōishi Yoshio)
- Shintaro Katsu as Genzō Akagaki
- Kōji Tsuruta as Kin'emon Okano
- Raizō Ichikawa as Takuminokami Asano
- Machiko Kyō as Orui
- Fujiko Yamamoto as Yōsen'in
- Michiyo Kogure as Ukihashi
- Chikage Awashima as Riku Ōishi
- Ayako Wakao as Osuzu
- Yatarō Kurokawa as Denpachirō Okado
- Eiji Funakoshi as Tsunanori Uesugi
- Eitaro Ozawa as Hyōbu Chisaka
- Takashi Shimura as Jūbei Ōtake
- Chieko Higashiyama as Ōishi's mother Otaka
- Tamao Nakamura as Asano's maid Midori
- Michiko Ai as Karumo
- Kazuko Wakamatsu as Osugi
- Aiko Mimasu as Toda
- Masao Shimizu as Dewanokami Yanagisawa
- Jun Tazaki as Ikkaku Shimizu
- Sonosuke Sawamura as Kazusanokami Sōda
- Yoshiro Kitahara as Jūjirō Hazama
- Kazuko Ichikawa as Chonmaru
- Gen Shimizu as Chūzaemon Yoshida
- Ichirō Amano as Mankichi
- Shinobu Araki as Yahei Horibe
- Toshio Chiba as Heihachirō Yamaoka
- Saburō Date as Jūheiji Sugino
- Keiko Fujita as Momiji
- Ryūji Fukui
- Yoichi Funaki as Yogorō Kanzaki
- Fujio Harumoto as Ukyōdayū Tamura
- Akiko Hasegawa as Okū - Ōishi's daughter
- Noriko Hodaka as Yūgiri
- Yukio Horikita as Shinpachirō Yamayoshi
- Ichirō Izawa as Isuke Maebara
- Ryōsuke Kagawa as Gengoemon Kataoka
- Hiroshi Kawaguchi as Chikara Ōishi
- Jun Negami as Sagaminokami Tsuchiya
- Nakamura Ganjirō II as Gorobei Kakimi
- Osamu Takizawa as Kōzukenosuke Kira
See also
- Forty-seven Ronin
- The 47 Ronin (元禄忠臣蔵, Genroku Chūshingura) - 1941 film by Kenji Mizoguchi
- Daichūshingura (大忠臣蔵, Daichūshingura) - 1971 television dramatization
References
- ^ "List of the most successful Japanese films of the 1950s". Retrieved 2015-02-27.
- ^ "List of Japanese box office records of the 1950s". Retrieved 2015-02-27.
External links
- (in Japanese) http://www.raizofan.net/link4/movie3/chushin.htm
- http://www.raizofan.net/eng/emovie2/emovie42.htm
- (in Japanese) http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1958/ch001420.htm
- The Loyal 47 Ronin at IMDb
This page was last edited on 16 September 2022, at 05:55