The Fall of Ako Castle
1978/10/28 • Released • Japanese
Overview
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.
Director : Kinji Fukasaku
Casts
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Oishi Kuranosuke
Sonny Chiba
Fuwa Kazuemon
Tsunehiko Watase
Kobayashi Heihachiro
Teruhiko Saigō
Asano
Kyōko Enami
Ukibashi
Masaomi Kondo
Hashimoto Heizaemon
Shinsuke Mikimoto
Hiroki Matsukata
Denhachiro Tamon
Shinsuke Ashida
Shikibe
Jun Fujimaki
Yajuemon
Takuya Fujioka
Kurobei Ohno
Toshirō Mifune
Tsuchiya Michinao
Seizō Fukumoto
Mieko Harada
Hatsu Hashimoto
Nobuo Kaneko
Kira
Yoshi Katō
Yahei Horibe
Toru Minegishi
Yasubei Horibe
Yoshiko Mita
Akuri
Kensaku Morita
Jujiro
Sanae Nakahara
Todano tsubone
Mikio Narita
Kato
Yoko Natsuki
Osen
Ken Nishida
Daigagu Asano
Ryō Nishida
Mariko Okada
Riku Ohishi
Junkichi Orimoto
Tokubei
Yûsuke Satô
Yagashira
Harumi Sone
Torii
Mizuho Suzuki
Narrator
Ryo Tamura
Uesugi
Tetsuro Tamba
Yanagisawa
Minori Terada
Gengo Ohtaka
Go Wakabayashi
Araki
Shōji Yasui
Uemon
Hideji Ōtaki
Yamada
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