The Fall of Ako Castle

The Fall of Ako Castle
File:TheFallOfAkoCastle.jpg Presented here as Swords of Vengeance
Directed by	Kinji Fukasaku
Written by	Koji Takada
Starring	Yorozuya Kinnosuke Sonny Chiba Hiroki Matsukata Teruhiko Saigō Tsunehiko Watase Tetsuro Tamba Yoshiko Mita Mariko Okada Toshirō Mifune
Cinematography	Yoshio Miyajima
Music by	Toshiaki Tsushima
Distributed by	Toei Company
Release date	1978
Running time	158 mins
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Swords of Vengeance: Fall of Ako Castle (赤穂城断絶, Akō-jō danzetsu) is a 1978 Japanese historical martial arts period film, directed by Kinji Fukasaku. It depicts the story of the Forty-seven Ronin (Chūshingura). The film is one of a series of period films by Fukasaku starring Yorozuya Kinnosuke, including Shogun's Samurai.

The film received one nomination for the Award of the Japanese Academy for best cinematography.[1]

Cast

• Yorozuya Kinnosuke as Ōishi Kuranosuke
• Sonny Chiba as Fuwa Kazuemon
• Tsunehiko Watase as Kobayashi Heihachiro
• Masaomi Kondo as Hashimoto Heizaemon
• Toshiro Mifune as Tsuchiya Michinao
• Kyōko Enami as Ukibashi
• Mitsuteru Nakamura as Date Muratoyo
• Shinsuke Mikimoto as Tsuchiya Masanao
• Teruhiko Saigō as Asano Takumi no Kami
• Nobuo Kaneko as Kira Kōzukenosuke
• Hiroki Matsukata as Denhachiro Tamon
• Tetsurō Tamba as Yanagisawa

External links

• The Fall of Ako Castle at IMDb