The 47 Ronin
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| Directed by | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| Produced by | Shochiku |
| Written by | Seika Mayama (play) Kenichiro Hara Yoshikata Yoda (screenplay) |
| Music by | Shirō Fukai |
| Cinematography | Kōhei Sugiyama |
| Distributed by | Shochiku Kinema Kenkyu-jo |
| Release date(s) |
December 1, 1941 part 1 (Japan)[1] |
| Running time |
223 min. |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
The 47 Ronin (元禄忠臣蔵 Genroku chushingura) is a 1941/1942 black-and-white two-part jidaigeki Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.
The first part was originally released in Japan just prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. The film was directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, and adapted from the play by Seika Mayama. The film chronicles the end of the lives of the Forty-seven Ronin, which has become a (historically based) legend in Japanese history. The film was released initially in Japan in 1941, and not until much later (1960s - 1970s) in the West.
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[edit] Cast
Actors in the film include[1]:
- Chojuro Kawarasaki as Ōishi Kuranosuke (Ōishi Yoshio)
- Kanemon Nakamura as Sukeimon Tomimori
- Kunitaro Kawarazaki as Isogai Jurozaemon
- Yoshizaburo Arashi as daimyo Asano Naganori
- Daisuke Katō as Fuwa Kazuemon
- Tokusaburo Arashi(?) 嵐徳三郎 as 奥野将監
- Ryū Ōkōchi 大河内龍 as 奥田孫兵衛
- Isamu Kosugi 小杉勇 as 多門伝八郎
- Masao Shimizu 清水将夫 as 加藤越中守
- Utaemon Ichikawa 市川右太衛門 as Tokugawa Tsunatoyo
- Seizaburō Kawazu as Lord Etchumori Hosokawa
- Mantoyo Mimasu as Kira Kozukenosuke
- Mitsuko Miura as Yosenin, Lady Asano, Asano's wife
- Mieko Takamine as Omino, Isogai's fiancee
[edit] See also
- The Loyal 47 Ronin (忠臣蔵 Chushingura) - 1958 film Kunio Watanabe
- Chushingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki - 1962 color film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
- Daichūshingura (大忠臣蔵, Daichūshingura) - 1971 television dramatization
- The Fall of Ako Castle (赤穂城断絶, Akō-jō danzetsu) (aka Swords Of Vengeance) - 1978 film by Kinji Fukasaku
- Matsu no Ōrōka
- List of historical drama films of Asia
[edit] References
- ^ a b (Japanese) The 47 Ronin: Part I http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1941/bq002510.htm accessed 8 February 2009
- ^ (Japanese) The 47 Ronin: Part II http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1942/br000230.htm accessed 8 February 2009
[edit] External links
- The 47 Ronin at the Internet Movie Database
- DVD beaver
- chicago Reader
- Movie martyr
- Images (Gary Morris)
- 25frames (Christoph Huber: in German)
- strictly film school
- eiga go go (French)
- David M. Hart
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