The Loyal 47 Ronin
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| Directed by | Kunio Watanabe |
| Produced by | Masaichi Nagata |
| Written by | Kunio Watanabe (writer) Fuji Yahiro (writer) |
| Music by | Ichirō Saitō |
| Cinematography | Takashi Watanabe |
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| Distributed by | Daiei Film |
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| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
The Loyal 47 Ronin (忠臣蔵 Chushingura?) is a 1958 color Jidaigeki (period drama) Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe. With box office earnings of ¥410 million, it was the most successful film of 1958 in Japan.[1] Furthermore, it was the second highest grossing film of the 1950s.[2]
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Cast
- Kazuo Hasegawa as Ōishi Kuranosuke (Ōishi Yoshio)
- Shintaro Katsu as Genzō Akagaki
- Kōji Tsuruta as Kin'emon Okano
- Raizō Ichikawa as Takuminokami Asano
- Machiko Kyō as Orui
- Fujiko Yamamoto as Yōsen'in
- Michiyo Kogure as Ukihashi
- Chikage Awashima as Riku Ōishi
- Ayako Wakao as Osuzu
- Yatarō Kurokawa as Denpachirō Okado
- Eiji Funakoshi as Tsunanori Uesugi
- Eitaro Ozawa as Hyōbu Chisaka
- Takashi Shimura as Jūbei Ōtake
- Chieko Higashiyama as Ōishi's mother Otaka
- Tamao Nakamura as Asano's maid Midori
- Michiko Ai as Karumo
- Kazuko Wakamatsu as Osugi
- Aiko Mimasu as Toda
- Masao Shimizu as Dewanokami Yanagisawa
- Jun Tazaki as Ikkaku Shimizu
- Sonosuke Sawamura as Kazusanokami Sōda
- Yoshiro Kitahara as Jūjirō Hazama
- Kazuko Ichikawa as Chonmaru
- Gen Shimizu as Chūzaemon Yoshida
- Ichirō Amano as Mankichi
- Shinobu Araki as Yahei Horibe
- Toshio Chiba as Heihachirō Yamaoka
- Saburō Date as Jūheiji Sugino
- Keiko Fujita as Momiji
- Ryūji Fukui
- Yoichi Funaki as Yogorō Kanzaki
- Fujio Harumoto as Ukyōdayū Tamura
- Akiko Hasegawa as Okū - Ōishi's daughter
- Noriko Hodaka as Yūgiri
- Yukio Horikita as Shinpachirō Yamayoshi
- Ichirō Izawa as Isuke Maebara
- Ryōsuke Kagawa as Gengoemon Kataoka
- Hiroshi Kawaguchi as Chikara Ōishi
- Jun Negami as Sagaminokami Tsuchiya
- Ganjirō Nakamura as Gorobei Kakimi
- Osamu Takizawa as Kōzukenosuke Kira
See also
- Forty-seven Ronin
- The 47 Ronin (元禄忠臣蔵, Genroku chushingura) - 1941 film by Kenji Mizoguchi
- 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
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- Pages with reference errors
- 1958 films
- Japanese-language films
- Articles containing Japanese-language text
- Articles with Japanese-language external links
- Japanese films
- Daiei Film films
- Film scores by Ichirō Saitō
- Films about assassination
- Films directed by Kunio Watanabe
- Films produced by Masaichi Nagata
- Jidaigeki films
- Samurai films
