The 47 Ronin (1941 film)
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| Directed by | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| Produced by | Shochiku |
| Written by | Seika Mayama (play) Kenichiro Hara Yoshikata Yoda (screenplay) |
| Music by | Shirō Fukai |
| Cinematography | Kōhei Sugiyama |
| Distributed by | Shochiku Kinema Kenkyu-jo |
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223 min. 112 min. (part 1) 111 min. (part 2) |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
The 47 Ronin (元禄 忠臣蔵 Genroku Chūshingura?, "The Treasury of Loyal Retainers of the Genroku era") is a 1941/1942 black-and-white two-part jidaigeki Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, adapted from a play by Seika Mayama. The film chronicles the end of the lives of the forty-seven Ronin.
Cast
Actors in the film include:[1]
- Chojuro Kawarasaki as Ōishi Kuranosuke (Ōishi Yoshio)
- Kanemon Nakamura as Sukeimon Tomimori
- Kunitaro Kawarazaki as Isogai Jurozaemon
- Yoshizaburo Arashi as daimyo Asano Naganori
- Daisuke Katō as Fuwa Kazuemon
- Tokusaburo Arashi(?) 嵐徳三郎 as Okuno Shōgen
- Ryū Ōkōchi 大河内龍 as 奥田孫兵衛
- Isamu Kosugi as Okado Shigetomo
- Masao Shimizu as 加藤越中守
- Utaemon Ichikawa as Tokugawa Tsunatoyo
- Seizaburō Kawazu as Lord Etchumori Hosokawa
- Mantoyo Mimasu as Kira Kozukenosuke
- Mitsuko Miura as Yosenin, Lady Asano, Asano's wife
- Mieko Takamine as Omino, Isogai's fiancee
See also
- The Loyal 47 Ronin (忠臣蔵 Chushingura) - 1958 film Kunio Watanabe
- Chushingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki - 1962 color film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
- Daichūshingura (大忠臣蔵, Daichūshingura) - 1971 television dramatization
- The Fall of Ako Castle (赤穂城断絶, Akō-jō danzetsu) (aka Swords Of Vengeance) - 1978 film by Kinji Fukasaku
- Matsu no Ōrōka
- List of historical drama films of Asia
Release
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The first film was released in Japan in 1941, just before the attack on Pearl Harbor.[citation needed]
References
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). The 47 Ronin at IMDb
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