The Fall of Ako Castle
1978This 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
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
