Synopsis

The Fall of Ako Castle (1978)

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.
Kinji Fukasaku
Shin’ichi Chiba, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Masaomi Kondo, Toshirō Mifune, Kyōko Enami, Tsunehiko Watase, Shinsuke Mikimoto, Shinsuke Ashida, Jun Fujimaki, Takuya Fujioka, Seizô Fukumoto, Mieko Harada, Nobuo Kaneko, Yoshi Katō, Hiroki Matsukata, Tōru Minegishi, Yoshiko Mita, Kensaku Morita, Sanae Nakahara, Mikio Narita, Yôko Natsuki, Ken Nishida, Ryō Nishida, Mariko Okada, Junkichi Orimoto, Teruhiko Saigō, Yûsuke Satô, Harumi Sone, Mizuho Suzuki, Maki Tachibana, Ryō Tamura, Tetsurō Tamba, Minori Terada, Go Wakabayashi, Shōji Yasui, Hideji Ôtaki, Matagoro Nakamura III
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