
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.
The Fall of Ako Castle
October 28, 1978
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Cast (37)

Kinnosuke Nakamura
Oishi Kuranosuke

Sonny Chiba
Fuwa Kazuemon

Tsunehiko Watase
Kobayashi Heihachiro

Teruhiko Saigō
Asano

Kyōko Enami
Ukibashi

Masaomi Kondo
Hashimoto Heizaemon

Hiroki Matsukata
Denhachiro Tamon

Shinsuke Ashida
Shikibe

Jun Fujimaki
Yajuemon

Takuya Fujioka
Kurobei Ohno

Toshirō Mifune
Tsuchiya Michinao

Seizō Fukumoto
N/A

Mieko Harada
Hatsu Hashimoto

Nobuo Kaneko
Kira

Yoshi Katō
Yahei Horibe

Toru Minegishi
Yasubei Horibe

Yoshiko Mita
Akuri

Kensaku Morita
Jujiro

Sanae Nakahara
Todano tsubone

Mikio Narita
Kato

Yoko Natsuki
Osen

Ken Nishida
Daigagu Asano

Ryō Nishida
N/A

Mariko Okada
Riku Ohishi

Junkichi Orimoto
Tokubei

Yûsuke Satô
Yagashira

Harumi Sone
Torii

Mizuho Suzuki
Narrator

Maki Tachibana
Shino Ohtaka

Ryo Tamura
Uesugi

Tetsuro Tamba
Yanagisawa

Minori Terada
Gengo Ohtaka

Go Wakabayashi
Araki

Shōji Yasui
Uemon

Hideji Ōtaki
Yamada

Mitsuteru Nakamura
Date Sakyōnosuke
Crew (7)
Directing

Kinji Fukasaku
Director
Writing

Kōji Takada
Screenplay
Production
No data availableSound

Toshiaki Tsushima
Original Music Composer
Art

Norimichi Igawa
Production Design
Camera

Yoshio Miyajima
Director of Photography

Hanjirō Nakazawa
Director of Photography
Costume & Make-Up
No data availableCrew
No data availableEditing

Isamu Ichida
Editor