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- Movie: 47 Ronin
- Romaji: Chushingura - Hana no maki yuki no maki
- Japanese: 忠臣蔵 花の巻 雪の巻
- Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
- Writer: Shoraku Miyoshi, Senryu Namiki, Izumo Takeda, Toshio Yasumi
- Producer: Sanezumi Fujimoto, Hiroshi Inagaki, Tomoyuki Tanaka
- Cinematographer: Kazuo Yamada
- Release Date: November 3, 1962
- Runtime: 206 min
- Studio: Toho
- Distributor: Toho
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Lord Asano (Yuzo Kayama) won't bribe the corrupt Kira (Chusha Ichikawa), a court protocol expert who procedes to do everything possible to discredit the young and idealistic Lord. Asano is forced to pay a fortune to have a building's worth of floormats replaced overnight to pacify the selfish and greedy Kira, but he still won't bribe him. To make Asano grovel, Kira withholds vital protocol information for an important meeting. Finally Asano cannot bear the humiliation, loses his head, and attacks. He is subdued after only wounding the cowardly Kira. Drawing a sword within the Shogun's palace is a capital offense, and Asano's sentence is carried out with yet more protocol ending in a formal seppuku ceremony: Asano disembowels himself with a knife and is decapitated by a headsman.
Asano's fate isn't the end of grief; his estate and castle are forfeit, and his vassals, including his family and the 47 samurai who serve him, are left both destitute and dishonored, banished from royal life. Expecting the 47 to defend the castle in a renegade outlaw battle, the Shogun's agents are surprised when their leader, Kuranosuke Oishi (Koshiro Matsumoto) not only surrenders it, but does repairs first. The samurai scatter and those that settle nearby are the source of constant gossip. Are they really pacified, or do they secretly plot to get revenge against Kira for their lamented Lord Asano? How will honor be regained, and their conflicting obligations to their Lord and their Shogun be satisfied?
Cast
- Koshiro Matsumoto - Chamberlain Kuranosuke Oishi
- Yuzo Kayama - Lord Naganori Asano
- Tatsuya Mihashi - Yasubei Horibe
- Akira Takarada - Gunpei Takada
- Yosuke Natsuki - Kinemon Okano
- Makoto Sato - Kazuemon Fuwa
- Tadao Takashima - Jyujiro Kan
- Seizaburo Kawazu - Asano Official
- Takashi Shimura - Hyobu Chishaka
- Daisuke Kato - Kichiemon Terasaka
- Keiju Kobayashi - Awajinokami Wakisake (Lord Awaji)
- Ryo Ikebe - Chikara Tsuchiya
- Setsuko Hara - Riku Oishi
- Yo ko Tsukasa - Aguri Asano
- Reiko Dan - Okaru
- Yuriko Hoshi - Otsuya
- Yumi Shirakawa - Ume
- Kumi Mizuno - Saho
- Mie Hama - Woman Refugee
- Nami Tamura
- Yo ko Fujiyama - Miyuki the Asano maid
- Junko Ikeuchi - Ofumi, of the tea shop
- Keiko Awaji - Otoki, Hanbei's wife
- Mitsuko Kusabue
- Michiyo Aratama - Ukigumo
- Hisaya Morishige - Hanbei
- Frankie Sakai - Heigoro the carpenter
- Norihei Miki - Toshibei, the male geisha
- Kingoro Yanagiya - Otokichi, of the tatami shop
- Yoshitomi Masuda - Tachu Matsubara (as Yoshitomi 'Keaton' Masuda)
- Mutoshi Yanami - Tokuzo, of the Ueki shop
- Toru Yuri - Nonta, Heigoro's cousin
- Toshiaki Minami - Denpachi, Heigoro's cousin
- Kyu Sazanka - Debashu Yanagisawa
- Ichiro Arishima - Lord Denpachiro Tamura
- Hiroshi Koizumi - Gengo Otaka
- Yu Fujiki - Yushichi Takebayashi
- Akira Kubo - Lord Date
- Akihiko Hirata - Yajuemon Okajima
- Kenji Sahara - Asano Samurai
- Hiroshi Tachikawa - Aminori Uesugi
- Tatsuyoshi Ehara - Daigaku Asano
- Tadao Nakamaru - Heihachiro Kobayashi
- Sachio Sakai - Shusui Kishima, the spy
- Yoshio Tsuchiya - Matanosho Shoita, Saho's brother
- Kamatari Fujiwara - Kyubei the innkeeper
- Jun Tazaki - Kiken Murakami
- Susumu Fujita - Yosubei Kajikawa
- Ken Uehara - Seikanji, of the Chunagons
- Jun Funato - Sanjyuji Kaizuka
- Kiyoshi Kodama
- Hisaya Ito - Sezaemon Oishi
- Ko zo Nomura
- Ko Mishima
- Kunio Otsuka
- Ren Yamamoto - Asano Samurai
- Eisei Amamoto - Takano, of the Chunagons (as Hideyo Amamoto)
- Nadao Kirino - Asana Samurai
- Heihachiro Okawa - Katafu Kanse
- Shigeki Ishida - Rishichi
- Akira Tani
- Yoshifumi Tajima
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