The Loyal 47 Ronin

The Loyal 47 Ronin

1932/03/01 • Released • Japanese

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2h 19m

Overview

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier. As the first sound version of the classic narrative, the film was something of an event, and employed a stellar cast, who give a roster of memorable performances. Director Teinosuke Kinugasa was primarily a specialist in jidai-geki (period films), such as the internationally celebrated Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1953), and although he is now most famous as the maker of the avant-garde silent films A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeji, 1926) and Crossroads (Jujiro, 1928), Chushingura is in fact more typical of his output than those experimental works. The film ranked third in that year’s Kinema Junpo critics’ poll, and Joseph Anderson and Donald Richie noted that 'not only the sound but the quick cutting was admired by many critics.

Director : Teinosuke Kinugasa

Casts
Jusaburo Bando

Jusaburo Bando

Kuranosuke Ôishi

Kazuo Hasegawa

Kazuo Hasegawa

Asano Takuminokami and Yoshida Sawaemon (as Chôjirô Hayashi)

Utaemon Ichikawa

Utaemon Ichikawa

Awajinokami Wakisaka / Gorobei Kakimi

Kōtarō Bandō

Kōtarō Bandō

Shinzaemon Katsuta

Kōkichi Takada

Kōkichi Takada

Sezaemon Oishi

Sôjin Kamiyama

Sôjin Kamiyama

Kozukenosuke Kira

Joji Oka

Joji Oka

Yanagisawa

Yukichi Iwata

Yukichi Iwata

Kurobee Ōno

Hideo Fujino

Hideo Fujino

Hyobu

Shintarô Takiguchi

Shintarô Takiguchi

Сhikara Ôishi

Eigorō Onoe

Eigorō Onoe

Heihachiro Kobayashi

Shoichi Nodera

Shoichi Nodera

Yahee Horibe

Hideo Takeda

Hideo Takeda

Gon'uemon Ōkubo

Jun Arai

Miyauchi Saito

Eiji Oshimoto

Eiji Oshimoto

Chotaro Kasahara

Kashichi Shimada

Kashichi Shimada

Tsunanori Uesugi

Ichiro Yuki

Ichiro Yuki

Kato

Junosuke Bandô

Junosuke Bandô

Emoshichi Yatou

Misao Seki

Misao Seki

Koyama

Yasurō Shiga

Yasurō Shiga

Jūbee Ōtake

Tetsu Tsuboi

Gengoemon Kataoka

Kokuten Kōdō

Kokuten Kōdō

Uesugi Family Elder

Tatsuo Saitō

Tatsuo Saitō

Kazuemon Fuwa

Tokuji Kobayashi

Tokuji Kobayashi

Genzaemon Tonomura

Shinichi Himori

Shinichi Himori

Tanuki

Kenji Oyama

Kenji Oyama

Gengo Ôtaka

Kenichi Miyajima

Kenichi Miyajima

Kajikawa

Shigeru Ogura

Shigeru Ogura

Yuka

Kinnosuke Takamatsu

Genshirō Shindō

Kasuke Koizumi

Kasuke Koizumi

servant Ono

Jushiro Kobayashi

Yasube Horibe

Saburō Sawai

Hachirō

Subaru Hirota

Inokō

Ryutaro Nagai

servant

Sumao Ishihara

Kajimura

Shozaburo Abe

Kozo Ikariko

Yoshito Yamaji

Yoshito Yamaji

prince Edokko

Tomio Aoki

Tomio Aoki

boss of the children (as Tokkan Kozô)

Hideo Sugawara

Hideo Sugawara

Daisaburō

Hiroko Kawasaki

Hiroko Kawasaki

Yōzen'in

Kinuyo Tanaka

Kinuyo Tanaka

Yae

Yoshiko Okada

Yoshiko Okada

Orui

Yoshiko Kawada

Yoshiko Kawada

Oriku

Chōko Iida

Chōko Iida

Nui, Fuwa's wife

Utako Suzuki

Utako Suzuki

Orui's mother

Akiko Chihaya

Akiko Chihaya

Katsuta's Wife Hikari

Kimie Kawakami

Nobuka Geigi

Yoshie Nakagawa

Yoshie Nakagawa

Kuni

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