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The Fall of Ako Castle

6.6 average rating
6.6
Japanese / 159 MIN. / 1978

The Genres

The Synopsis

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.

The Cast

Kinnosuke NakamuraSonny ChibaTsunehiko WataseTeruhiko SaigōKyōko EnamiMasaomi KondoShinsuke MikimotoHiroki MatsukataShinsuke AshidaJun FujimakiTakuya FujiokaToshirō MifuneSeizō FukumotoMieko HaradaNobuo KanekoYoshi KatōToru MinegishiYoshiko MitaKensaku MoritaSanae NakaharaMikio NaritaYoko NatsukiKen NishidaRyō NishidaMariko OkadaJunkichi OrimotoYûsuke SatôHarumi SoneMizuho SuzukiMaki TachibanaRyo TamuraTetsuro TambaMinori TeradaGo WakabayashiShōji YasuiHideji ŌtakiMatagoro Nakamura III浅川かがり

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