The Fall of Ako Castle

The Fall of Ako Castle (1978)


  • Genre: Action, Drama, History
  • Release Date: 1978-10-28
  • User Rating: 6.6/10 from 20 ratings
  • Runtime: 2h 39min
  • Language: 日本語
  • Production Company: Toei Company
  • Production Country: Japan
  • Director: Kinji Fukasaku
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Summary

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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  • 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

    as

  • 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

    as

  • 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

    as

  • 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
Directing Kinji Fukasaku Director
Art Norimichi Igawa Production Design
Editing Isamu Ichida Editor
Writing Kōji Takada Screenplay
Sound Toshiaki Tsushima Original Music Composer
Camera Yoshio Miyajima Director of Photography
Camera Hanjirō Nakazawa Director of Photography

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