The Loyal 47 Ronin (1932)
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Release03/01/1932
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ProductionShochiku Kinema (Kamata)
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Rotten tomato0%
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Original title忠臣蔵
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Original languageja
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Production Cost
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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.
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Director
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Casts
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Kuranosuke Ôishi
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Asano Takuminokami and Yoshida Sawaemon (as Chôjirô Hayashi)
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Awajinokami Wakisaka / Gorobei Kakimi
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Shinzaemon Katsuta
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Sezaemon Oishi
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Kozukenosuke Kira
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Yanagisawa
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Kurobee Ōno
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Hyobu
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Сhikara Ôishi
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Heihachiro Kobayashi
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Yahee Horibe
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Gon'uemon Ōkubo
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Miyauchi Saito
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Chotaro Kasahara
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Tsunanori Uesugi
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Kato
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Emoshichi Yatou
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Koyama
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Jūbee Ōtake
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Gengoemon Kataoka
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Uesugi Family Elder
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Kazuemon Fuwa
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Genzaemon Tonomura
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Tanuki
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Gengo Ôtaka
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Kajikawa
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Yuka
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Genshirō Shindō
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servant Ono
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Yasube Horibe
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Hachirō
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Inokō
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servant
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Kajimura
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Kozo Ikariko
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prince Edokko
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boss of the children (as Tokkan Kozô)
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Daisaburō
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Yōzen'in
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Yae
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Orui
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Oriku
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Nui, Fuwa's wife
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Orui's mother
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Katsuta's Wife Hikari
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Nobuka Geigi
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Kuni