Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 1958


The Loyal 47 Ronin (1958 film)

Buy The Loyal 47 Ronin (1958 film) now from Amazon

First, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the movie. And once you've experienced the movie, tell everyone what you thought about it.

Wikipedia article




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. Furthermore, it was the second-highest-grossing film of the 1950s in Japan.

Plot



The Loyal 47 Ronin tells the true tale of a group of samurai who became rnin (leaderless samurai) after their daimy (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 ishi Kuranosuke (ishi Yoshio)

* Shintaro Katsu as Genz Akagaki

* Kji Tsuruta as Kin'emon Okano

* Raiz Ichikawa as Takuminokami Asano

* Machiko Ky as Orui

* Fujiko Yamamoto as Ysen'in

* Michiyo Kogure as Ukihashi

* Chikage Awashima as Riku ishi

* Ayako Wakao as Osuzu

* Yatar Kurokawa as Denpachir Okado

* Eiji Funakoshi as Tsunanori Uesugi

* Eitaro Ozawa as Hybu Chisaka

* Takashi Shimura as Jbei take

* Chieko Higashiyama as ishi'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 Sda

* Yoshiro Kitahara as Jjir Hazama

* Kazuko Ichikawa as Chonmaru

* Gen Shimizu as Chzaemon Yoshida

* Ichir Amano as Mankichi

* Shinobu Araki as Yahei Horibe

* Toshio Chiba as Heihachir Yamaoka

* Sabur Date as Jheiji Sugino

* Keiko Fujita as Momiji

* Ryji Fukui

* Yoichi Funaki as Yogor Kanzaki

* Fujio Harumoto as Ukyday Tamura

* Akiko Hasegawa as Ok - ishi's daughter

* Noriko Hodaka as Ygiri

* Yukio Horikita as Shinpachir Yamayoshi

* Ichir Izawa as Isuke Maebara

* Rysuke Kagawa as Gengoemon Kataoka

* Hiroshi Kawaguchi as Chikara ishi

* Jun Negami as Sagaminokami Tsuchiya

* Nakamura Ganjir II as Gorobei Kakimi

* Osamu Takizawa as Kzukenosuke Kira

See also



* Forty-seven Ronin

* 'The 47 Ronin' (, Genroku Chshingura) - 1941 film by Kenji Mizoguchi

* 'Daichshingura' (, Daichshingura) - 1971 television dramatization

References




Buy The Loyal 47 Ronin (1958 film) now from Amazon

<-- Return to movies from 1958



This work is released under CC-BY-SA. Some or all of this content attributed to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1110560075.