Akō Rōshi (1961 film)

Akō Rōshi
Directed by	Sadatsugu Matsuda
Written by	Hideo Oguni (writer) Kaneto Shindō (writer)
Produced by	Toei, Shigeru Okada (producer) Hiroshi Okawa (executive producer)
Cinematography	Shintarō Kawasaki
Release date	March 28, 1961 (Japan)
Running time	150 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Akō Rōshi (赤穂浪士, Akō Rōshi) is a 1961 color Japanese film about the 47 Ronin directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda.

Cast

• Kusuo Abe as Katada
• Kyōko Aoyama as Nagi
• Chiyonosuke Azuma as Horibe
• Shinobu Chihara as Ukibashi Dayu
• Yoshiko Fujita as Ayame
• Hiromi Hanazono as Sakura
• Yumiko Hasegawa as Chiyo
• Utaemon Ichikawa as Hizaka
• Chiezō Kataoka as Oishi (Ōishi Yoshio)
• Michiyo Kogure as Oyone
• Jūshirō Konoe as Ikkaku Shimizu
• Hiroki Matsukata as Oishi
• Katsuo Nakamura as Denkichi
• Kinnosuke Nakamura as Wakisaka
• Satomi Oka as Sen
• Hashizo Okawa as Lord Asano (daimyo Asano Naganori)
• Keiko Okawa as Kita no kata
• Denjirō Ōkōchi as Sakon Tachibana
• Ryūtarō Ōtomo as Hotta
• Shunji Sakai as Matsuzo
• Hiroko Sakuramachi as Osaki
• Kōtarō Satomi as Uesugi
• Eitarō Shindō as Denpachiro
• Shin Tokudaiji as Katada
• Ryunosuke Tsukigata as Lord Kira (Kozunosuke Kira)
• Kenji Usuda as Horibe
• Isao Yamagata as Kataoka
• Eijirō Yanagi as Yanagisawa

See also

• Forty-seven Ronin

other films about Forty-seven ronin:

• The 47 Ronin (元禄忠臣蔵, Genroku chushingura) - 1941 film by Kenji Mizoguchi
• (赤穂浪士　天の巻　地の巻 Akō Rōshi: Ten no Maki, Chi no Maki) - 1956 film by Sadatsugu Matsuda
• The 47 Ronin (忠臣蔵 Chushingura) - 1958 film by Kunio Watanabe
• Chushingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki - 1962 film
• Nagadosu chūshingura, 1962 action film
• 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

External links

• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200418/