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Snow Trail
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
| name = Snow Trail
| image = Snow Trail poster.jpg
| caption = Japanese movie poster
| director = Senkichi Taniguchi
| producer = Tomoyuki Tanaka
| writer = Akira Kurosawa
Senkichi Taniguchi (uncredited)
| starring =
| music = Akira Ifukube
| studio = Toho
| cinematography = Junichi Segawa
| editing = Senkichi Taniguchi
Akira Kurosawa (uncredited)
| distributor = Toho
| released =
| runtime = 89 minutes
| country = Japan
| language = Japanese
| budget =
}}
is a 1947 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi from Akira Kurosawa's screenplay. It was the first film role for Toshir Mifune, later to become one of Japan's most famous actors. Mifune and the other main actor in the film, Takashi Shimura, later became long-term collaborators of film director Akira Kurosawa.
Plot
Three bank robbers (Mifune, Takashi Shimura, and Yoshio Kosugi) on the run from the police hide out high up in the snowy Japanese mountains in a remote lodge inhabited by an old man, his granddaughter and an intrepid mountaineer (Akitake Kono) trapped there by a recent blizzard. They don't know that the men are criminals, and a tense standoff starts to unfold.
Cast
* Toshiro Mifune as Eijima
* Takashi Shimura as Nojiro
* Yoshio Kosugi as Takasugi
* Akitake Kono as Honda
* Setsuko Wakayama as Haruko
* Kokuten Kd as Haruko's Grandfather
References
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