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The Loyal 47 Ronin (1932)

ALL 03/01/1932 (ja) Drama 139 Min
  • Release
    03/01/1932
  • Production
    Shochiku Kinema (Kamata)
  • Rotten tomato
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  • Original title
    忠臣蔵
  • Original language
    ja
  • 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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Casts

  1. Jusaburo Bando

    Kuranosuke Ôishi

  2. Kazuo Hasegawa

    Asano Takuminokami and Yoshida Sawaemon (as Chôjirô Hayashi)

  3. Utaemon Ichikawa

    Awajinokami Wakisaka / Gorobei Kakimi

  4. Kōtarō Bandō

    Shinzaemon Katsuta

  5. Kōkichi Takada

    Sezaemon Oishi

  6. Sôjin Kamiyama

    Kozukenosuke Kira

  7. Joji Oka

    Yanagisawa

  8. Yukichi Iwata

    Kurobee Ōno

  9. Hideo Fujino

    Hyobu

  10. Shintarô Takiguchi

    Сhikara Ôishi

  11. Eigorō Onoe

    Heihachiro Kobayashi

  12. Shoichi Nodera

    Yahee Horibe

  13. Hideo Takeda

    Gon'uemon Ōkubo

  14. Jun Arai

    Miyauchi Saito

  15. Eiji Oshimoto

    Chotaro Kasahara

  16. Kashichi Shimada

    Tsunanori Uesugi

  17. Ichiro Yuki

    Kato

  18. Junosuke Bandô

    Emoshichi Yatou

  19. Misao Seki

    Koyama

  20. Yasurō Shiga

    Jūbee Ōtake

  21. Tetsu Tsuboi

    Gengoemon Kataoka

  22. Kokuten Kōdō

    Uesugi Family Elder

  23. Tatsuo Saitō

    Kazuemon Fuwa

  24. Tokuji Kobayashi

    Genzaemon Tonomura

  25. Shinichi Himori

    Tanuki

  26. Kenji Oyama

    Gengo Ôtaka

  27. Kenichi Miyajima

    Kajikawa

  28. Shigeru Ogura

    Yuka

  29. Kinnosuke Takamatsu

    Genshirō Shindō

  30. Kasuke Koizumi

    servant Ono

  31. Jushiro Kobayashi

    Yasube Horibe

  32. Saburō Sawai

    Hachirō

  33. Subaru Hirota

    Inokō

  34. Ryutaro Nagai

    servant

  35. Sumao Ishihara

    Kajimura

  36. Shozaburo Abe

    Kozo Ikariko

  37. Yoshito Yamaji

    prince Edokko

  38. Tomio Aoki

    boss of the children (as Tokkan Kozô)

  39. Hideo Sugawara

    Daisaburō

  40. Hiroko Kawasaki

    Yōzen'in

  41. Kinuyo Tanaka

    Yae

  42. Yoshiko Okada

    Orui

  43. Yoshiko Kawada

    Oriku

  44. Chōko Iida

    Nui, Fuwa's wife

  45. Utako Suzuki

    Orui's mother

  46. Akiko Chihaya

    Katsuta's Wife Hikari

  47. Kimie Kawakami

    Nobuka Geigi

  48. Yoshie Nakagawa

    Kuni

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 48 , Crews : 2

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The Loyal 47 Ronin (1932) 139 Min

ALL 03/01/1932 (ja)
Drama
  • Release 03/01/1932
  • Production
    Shochiku Kinema (Kamata)
  • Original title 忠臣蔵
  • ja
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. Teinosuke Kinugasa

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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