The Loyal 47 Ronin (1958 film)

1958 film
  • April 1, 1958 (1958-04-01)
Running time
166 minutesCountryJapanLanguageJapanese

The Loyal 47 Ronin (忠臣蔵, Chūshingura) is a 1958 color jidaigeki (period drama) Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe. With box office earnings of ¥410 million, it was the most successful film of 1958 in Japan.[1] Furthermore, it was the second-highest-grossing film of the 1950s in Japan.[2]

Plot

The Loyal 47 Ronin tells the true tale of a group of samurai who became rōnin (leaderless samurai) after their daimyō (feudal lord) Asano Naganori was compelled to commit seppuku (ritual suicide) for assaulting a court official, Kira Yoshinaka, who had insulted him. After carefully planning for over a year, they execute a daring assault on their sworn enemy's estate, and exact their revenge, knowing that they themselves would be forced to share their Lord's fate to atone for their crime.

Cast

  • Kazuo Hasegawa as Ōishi Kuranosuke (Ōishi Yoshio)
  • Shintaro Katsu as Genzō Akagaki
  • Kōji Tsuruta as Kin'emon Okano
  • Raizō Ichikawa as Takuminokami Asano
  • Machiko Kyō as Orui
  • Fujiko Yamamoto as Yōsen'in
  • Michiyo Kogure as Ukihashi
  • Chikage Awashima as Riku Ōishi
  • Ayako Wakao as Osuzu
  • Yatarō Kurokawa as Denpachirō Okado
  • Eiji Funakoshi as Tsunanori Uesugi
  • Eitaro Ozawa as Hyōbu Chisaka
  • Takashi Shimura as Jūbei Ōtake
  • Chieko Higashiyama as Ōishi's mother Otaka
  • Tamao Nakamura as Asano's maid Midori
  • Michiko Ai as Karumo
  • Kazuko Wakamatsu as Osugi
  • Aiko Mimasu as Toda
  • Masao Shimizu as Dewanokami Yanagisawa
  • Jun Tazaki as Ikkaku Shimizu
  • Sonosuke Sawamura as Kazusanokami Sōda
  • Yoshiro Kitahara as Jūjirō Hazama
  • Kazuko Ichikawa as Chonmaru
  • Gen Shimizu as Chūzaemon Yoshida
  • Ichirō Amano as Mankichi
  • Shinobu Araki as Yahei Horibe
  • Toshio Chiba as Heihachirō Yamaoka
  • Saburō Date as Jūheiji Sugino
  • Keiko Fujita as Momiji
  • Ryūji Fukui
  • Yoichi Funaki as Yogorō Kanzaki
  • Fujio Harumoto as Ukyōdayū Tamura
  • Akiko Hasegawa as Okū - Ōishi's daughter
  • Noriko Hodaka as Yūgiri
  • Yukio Horikita as Shinpachirō Yamayoshi
  • Ichirō Izawa as Isuke Maebara
  • Ryōsuke Kagawa as Gengoemon Kataoka
  • Hiroshi Kawaguchi as Chikara Ōishi
  • Jun Negami as Sagaminokami Tsuchiya
  • Nakamura Ganjirō II as Gorobei Kakimi
  • Osamu Takizawa as Kōzukenosuke Kira

See also

References

  1. ^ "List of the most successful Japanese films of the 1950s". Retrieved 2015-02-27.
  2. ^ "List of Japanese box office records of the 1950s". Retrieved 2015-02-27.
  • (in Japanese) http://www.raizofan.net/link4/movie3/chushin.htm
  • http://www.raizofan.net/eng/emovie2/emovie42.htm
  • (in Japanese) http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1958/ch001420.htm
  • The Loyal 47 Ronin at IMDb
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