The Loyal 47 Ronin
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Overview
This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier. As the first sound version of the classic narrative, the film was something of an event, and employed a stellar cast, who give a roster of memorable performances. Director Teinosuke Kinugasa was primarily a specialist in jidai-geki (period films), such as the internationally celebrated Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1953), and although he is now most famous as the maker of the avant-garde silent films A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeji, 1926) and Crossroads (Jujiro, 1928), Chushingura is in fact more typical of his output than those experimental works. The film ranked third in that year’s Kinema Junpo critics’ poll, and Joseph Anderson and Donald Richie noted that 'not only the sound but the quick cutting was admired by many critics.
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Runtime
139 min
Release Date
1932-03-01
Status
Released
Original Language
Japanese
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Kuranosuke Ôishi
Kazuo Hasegawa
Asano Takuminokami and Yoshida Sawaemon (as Chôjirô Hayashi)
Utaemon Ichikawa
Awajinokami Wakisaka / Gorobei Kakimi
Kōtarō Bandō
Shinzaemon Katsuta
Kōkichi Takada
Sezaemon Oishi
Sôjin Kamiyama
Kozukenosuke Kira
Joji Oka
Yanagisawa
Yukichi Iwata
Kurobee Ōno
Hideo Fujino
Hyobu
Shintarô Takiguchi
Сhikara Ôishi
Eigorō Onoe
Heihachiro Kobayashi
Shoichi Nodera
Yahee Horibe
Hideo Takeda
Gon'uemon Ōkubo
Jun Arai
Miyauchi Saito
Eiji Oshimoto
Chotaro Kasahara
Kashichi Shimada
Tsunanori Uesugi
Ichiro Yuki
Kato
Junosuke Bandô
Emoshichi Yatou
Misao Seki
Koyama
Yasurō Shiga
Jūbee Ōtake
Tetsu Tsuboi
Gengoemon Kataoka
Kokuten Kōdō
Uesugi Family Elder
Tatsuo Saitō
Kazuemon Fuwa
Tokuji Kobayashi
Genzaemon Tonomura
Shinichi Himori
Tanuki
Kenji Oyama
Gengo Ôtaka
Kenichi Miyajima
Kajikawa
Shigeru Ogura
Yuka
Kinnosuke Takamatsu
Genshirō Shindō
Kasuke Koizumi
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Jushiro Kobayashi
Yasube Horibe
Saburō Sawai
Hachirō
Subaru Hirota
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Ryutaro Nagai
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Sumao Ishihara
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Shozaburo Abe
Kozo Ikariko
Yoshito Yamaji
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Tomio Aoki
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Hideo Sugawara
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Hiroko Kawasaki
Yōzen'in
Kinuyo Tanaka
Yae
Yoshiko Okada
Orui
Yoshiko Kawada
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Chōko Iida
Nui, Fuwa's wife
Utako Suzuki
Orui's mother
Akiko Chihaya
Katsuta's Wife Hikari
Kimie Kawakami
Nobuka Geigi
Yoshie Nakagawa
Kuni
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