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The Fall of Ako Castle (1978)

ALL 10/28/1978 (ja) Action, Drama, History 159 Min
  • Release
    10/28/1978
  • Production
    Toei Company
  • Rotten tomato
    66%
  • Original title
    赤穂城断絶
  • Original language
    ja
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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.

  1. Kinji Fukasaku

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Isamu Ichida

    Editor

  4. Producer



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  1. Kinnosuke Nakamura

    Oishi Kuranosuke

  2. Sonny Chiba

    Fuwa Kazuemon

  3. Tsunehiko Watase

    Kobayashi Heihachiro

  4. Teruhiko Saigō

    Asano

  5. Kyōko Enami

    Ukibashi

  6. Masaomi Kondo

    Hashimoto Heizaemon

  7. Shinsuke Mikimoto

  8. Hiroki Matsukata

    Denhachiro Tamon

  9. Shinsuke Ashida

    Shikibe

  10. Jun Fujimaki

    Yajuemon

  11. Takuya Fujioka

    Kurobei Ohno

  12. Toshirō Mifune

    Tsuchiya Michinao

  13. Seizō Fukumoto

  14. Mieko Harada

    Hatsu Hashimoto

  15. Nobuo Kaneko

    Kira

  16. Yoshi Katō

    Yahei Horibe

  17. Toru Minegishi

    Yasubei Horibe

  18. Yoshiko Mita

    Akuri

  19. Kensaku Morita

    Jujiro

  20. Sanae Nakahara

    Todano tsubone

  21. Mikio Narita

    Kato

  22. Yoko Natsuki

    Osen

  23. Ken Nishida

    Daigagu Asano

  24. Ryō Nishida

  25. Mariko Okada

    Riku Ohishi

  26. Junkichi Orimoto

    Tokubei

  27. Yûsuke Satô

    Yagashira

  28. Harumi Sone

    Torii

  29. Mizuho Suzuki

    Narrator

  30. Maki Tachibana

    Shino Ohtaka

  31. Ryo Tamura

    Uesugi

  32. Tetsuro Tamba

    Yanagisawa

  33. Minori Terada

    Gengo Ohtaka

  34. Go Wakabayashi

    Araki

  35. Shōji Yasui

    Uemon

  36. Hideji Ōtaki

    Yamada

  37. Matagoro Nakamura III

    Date Sakyōnosuke

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 37 , Crews : 7

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The Fall of Ako Castle (1978) 159 Min

ALL 10/28/1978 (ja)
Action, Drama, History
  • Release 10/28/1978
  • Production
    Toei Company
  • Original title 赤穂城断絶
  • ja
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. Kinji Fukasaku

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Isamu Ichida

    Editor

  4. Producer



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