THE LOYAL 47 RONIN (CHUSHINGURA)

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• Release Year: 1958
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: A timeless tale of honor and revenge, The Loyal 47 Ronin is the true story of a group of samurai who became ronin (masterless samurai) after their Lord was forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide) for assaulting a court official, KIRA Yoshinaka. After patiently waiting and planning for over a year, they execute a daring assault on Lord Kira's estate, and exact their revenge, knowing that they would themselves be forced to commit seppuku to atone for their crime.; ; Daiei Studios pulled out all the stops to creat what is arguably the best film adaptation of the story ever made.
• Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa, Shintarô Katsu, Koji Tsuruta, Raizô Ichikawa, Machiko Kyô, Fujiko Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure, Chikage Awashima, Ayako Wakao, Yataro Kurokawa, Eiji Funakoshi, Eitarô Ozawa, Takashi Shimura, Ganjirô Nakamura, Chieko Higashiyama, Tamao Nakamura, Michiko Ai, Kazuko Wakamatsu, Aiko Mimasu, Masao Shimizu, Jun Tazaki, Sonosuke Sawamura, Yoshirô Kitahara, Kazuko Ichikawa, Gen Shimizu, Ichirô Amano, Shinobu Araki, Teruyo Asagumo, Okuzan Asao, Ryonosuke Azuma, Saburoh Bouya, Toshio Chiba, Saburô Date, Jun Fujikawa, Daisuke Fujima, Keiko Fujita, Ryuuji Fukui, Yoichi Funaki, Setsuko Hama, Tatsuo Hanabu, Seishirô Hara, Fujio Harumoto, Akiko Hasegawa, Riko Hasegawa, Noriko Hodaka, Yukio Horikita, Kinya Ichikawa, Ryuichi Ishii, Tadashi Iwata, Ichirô Izawa, Ryôsuke Kagawa, Kôichi Katsuragi, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Keizô Kawasaki, Masayoshi Kikuno, Reiko Kongo, Kappei Matsumoto, Bontarô Miake, Ryuzaburo Mitsuoka, Shozo Nanbu, Jun Negami, Teruko Omi, Eigoro Onoe, Mitsusaburô Ramon, Ichirô Ryûzaki, Shintarô Saijô, Yasuhiko Shima, Kinzô Shin, Ryuji Shinagawa, Kenji Sugawara, Shôsaku Sugiyama, Kimiko Tachibana, Ichirô Takakura, Hideo Takamatsu, Hisako Takihana, Osamu Takizawa, Kazue Tamaoki, Yûsaku Terajima, Kan Ueda, Shôji Umewaka, Yôko Uraji, Mantarô Ushio, Yôko Wakasugi, Fumihiko Yokoyama, Kunio Watanabe, Fuji Yahiro
• Director: Kunio Watanabe
• Runtime: 2:46
• Company: Daiei, Kadokawa Pictures, AnimEigo
• Media Format: Movie