The Fall of Ako Castle

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.

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159 min

Cast

Kinnosuke Nakamura

as Oishi Kuranosuke

Sonny Chiba

as Fuwa Kazuemon

Tsunehiko Watase

as Kobayashi Heihachiro

Teruhiko Saigō

as Asano

Kyōko Enami

as Ukibashi

Masaomi Kondo

as Hashimoto Heizaemon

Shinsuke Mikimoto

Hiroki Matsukata

as Denhachiro Tamon

Shinsuke Ashida

as Shikibe

Jun Fujimaki

as Yajuemon

Takuya Fujioka

as Kurobei Ohno

Toshirō Mifune

as Tsuchiya Michinao

Seizō Fukumoto

Mieko Harada

as Hatsu Hashimoto

Nobuo Kaneko

as Kira

Yoshi Katō

as Yahei Horibe

Toru Minegishi

as Yasubei Horibe

Yoshiko Mita

as Akuri

Kensaku Morita

as Jujiro

Sanae Nakahara

as Todano tsubone

Mikio Narita

as Kato

Yoko Natsuki

as Osen

Ken Nishida

as Daigagu Asano

Ryō Nishida

Mariko Okada

as Riku Ohishi

Junkichi Orimoto

as Tokubei

Yûsuke Satô

as Yagashira

Harumi Sone

as Torii

Mizuho Suzuki

as Narrator

Maki Tachibana

as Shino Ohtaka

Ryo Tamura

as Uesugi

Tetsuro Tamba

as Yanagisawa

Minori Terada

as Gengo Ohtaka

Go Wakabayashi

as Araki

Shōji Yasui

as Uemon

Hideji Ōtaki

as Yamada

Matagoro Nakamura III

as Date Sakyōnosuke

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Director

Kinji Fukasaku