Last of the Ako Clan
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- Movie: Last of the Ako Clan
- Romaji: Ako-Jo danzetsu
- Japanese: 赤穂城断絶
- Director: Kinji Fukasaku
- Writer: Koji Takada
- Producer:
- Cinematographer: Yoshio Miyajima, Hanjiro Nakazawa
- Release Date: October 28, 1978
- Runtime: 159 min
- Studio: Toei
- Distributor: Toei
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
When Lord Asano attacks Lord Kira in retaliation for insults tossed his way, the Shogun orders Asano to commit hara-kiri and decrees his castle be disbanded, yet allows Kira to walk away an unpunished man, chaos erupts in the land as Asano's followers protest the imbalance of justice. Asano's samurai decide to avenge the decision and take down Kira.
Cast
- Sonny Chiba - Kazuemon Fuwa
- Kinnosuke Nakamura - Kuranosuke Ohishi
- Tsunehiko Watase - Heihachiro Kobayashi
- Masaomi Kondo - Hashimoto
- Toshiro Mifune - Tsuchiya
- Kyoko Enami - Ukibashi
- Kasho Nakamura
- Shinsuke Mikimoto
- Shinsuke Ashida - Shikibe
- Jun Fujimaki - Yajuemon
- Takuya Fujioka - Kurobei Ohno
- Seizo Fukumoto
- Mieko Harada - Hatsu Hashimoto
- Nobuo Kaneko - Kira
- Yoshi Kato - Yahei Horibe
- Hiroki Matsukata - Denhachiro Tamon
- Toru Minegishi - Yasubei Horibe
- Yoshiko Mita - Akuri
- Kensaku Morita - Jujiro
- Sanae Nakahara - Todano tsubone
- Mikio Narita - Kato
- Yoko Natsuki - Osen
- Ken Nishida - Daigagu Asano
- Mariko Okada - Riku Ohishi
- Junkichi Orimoto - Tokubei
- Hideji Otaki - Yamada
- Teruhiko Saigo - Asano
- Yusuke Sato - Yagashira
- Harumi Sone - Torii
- Mizuho Suzuki - Narrator
- Maki Tachibana - Shino Ohtaka
- Tetsuro Tamba - Yanagisawa
- Ryo Tamura - Uesugi
- Minori Terada - Gengo Ohtaka
- Go Wakabayashi - Araki
- Shoji Yasui - Uemon
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