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The Fall of Ako Castle

This 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.

1978 |2h 39m |  Action, Drama, History

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Cast

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Kinnosuke Nakamura

Oishi Kuranosuke

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Sonny Chiba

Fuwa Kazuemon

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Tsunehiko Watase

Kobayashi Heihachiro

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Teruhiko Saigō

Asano

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Kyōko Enami

Ukibashi

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Masaomi Kondo

Hashimoto Heizaemon

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Shinsuke Mikimoto

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Hiroki Matsukata

Denhachiro Tamon

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Shinsuke Ashida

Shikibe

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Jun Fujimaki

Yajuemon

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Takuya Fujioka

Kurobei Ohno

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Toshirō Mifune

Tsuchiya Michinao

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Seizō Fukumoto

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Mieko Harada

Hatsu Hashimoto

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Nobuo Kaneko

Kira

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Yoshi Katō

Yahei Horibe

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Toru Minegishi

Yasubei Horibe

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Yoshiko Mita

Akuri

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Kensaku Morita

Jujiro

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Sanae Nakahara

Todano tsubone

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Mikio Narita

Kato

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Yoko Natsuki

Osen

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Ken Nishida

Daigagu Asano

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Ryō Nishida

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Mariko Okada

Riku Ohishi

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Junkichi Orimoto

Tokubei

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Yûsuke Satô

Yagashira

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Harumi Sone

Torii

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Mizuho Suzuki

Narrator

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Ryo Tamura

Uesugi

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Tetsuro Tamba

Yanagisawa

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Minori Terada

Gengo Ohtaka

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Go Wakabayashi

Araki

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Shōji Yasui

Uemon

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Hideji Ōtaki

Yamada

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Status

Released

Language

Japanese

Budget

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