The Fall of Ako Castle | 赤穂城断絶
The Fall of Ako Castle赤穂城断絶
Overview
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.
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Cast
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Sonny Chiba
Tsunehiko Watase
Teruhiko Saigō
Kyōko Enami
Masaomi Kondo
Shinsuke Mikimoto
Hiroki Matsukata
Shinsuke Ashida
Jun Fujimaki
Takuya Fujioka
Toshirō Mifune
Seizō Fukumoto
Mieko Harada
Nobuo Kaneko
Yoshi Katō
Toru Minegishi
Yoshiko Mita
Kensaku Morita
Sanae Nakahara
Mikio Narita
Yoko Natsuki
Ken Nishida
Ryō Nishida
Mariko Okada
Junkichi Orimoto
Yûsuke Satô
Harumi Sone
Mizuho Suzuki
Maki Tachibana
Ryo Tamura
Tetsurō Tamba
Minori Terada
Go Wakabayashi
Shōji Yasui
Hideji Ōtaki
Matagoro Nakamura III
Crew
Kinji Fukasaku
