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Director:
Kenji Mizoguchi
Writers:
Kenichiro Hara (writer)
Seika Mayama (play)
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Release Date:
March 1979 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | History more
Plot:
Lord Asano resists a bribery attempt by a member of the Shogun's court. His honesty, however, is useless against the corruption of the administration... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Yoshizaburo Arashi ... Lord Takuminokami Asano
Utaemon Ichikawa ... Tsunatoyo Tokugawa
Daisuke Katô ... Fuwa Kazuemon
Chojuro Kawarasaki ... Kuranosuke Oishi
Kunitaro Kawarazaki ... Jurozaemon Isogai
Seizaburô Kawazu ... Lord Etchumori Hosokawa
Mantoyo Mimasu ... Kozunosuke Kira
Mitsuko Miura ... Yosenin, Asano's wife
Kanemon Nakamura ... Sukeimon Tomimori
Mieko Takamine ... Omino, Isogai's fiancee
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
47 Samurai
Chushingura
Loyal 47 of the Genroku Era
The 47 Ronin (USA)
The Loyal 47 Ronin
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Runtime:
241 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Argentina:13

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Trivia:
The Japanese Ministry of Information, under the militarist government, commissioned director Kenji Mizoguchi to make this film as a morale booster for the WWII war effort. But it was a commercial failure, being released in Japan one week before the attack on Pearl Harbor. The military and most audiences found the first part of the film to be too slow and serious. However, the studio and Mizoguchi both regarded it as so important that Part 2 was put into production, though Mizoguchi was forced to insert some close-ups of the stars which are totally absent from Part I. The film was finally shown in America in the 1970s. more
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Referenced in Aru eiga-kantoku no shogai (1975) more

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Long, 15 March 1999
Author: anonymous from oregon

Though stately, impressive, and vaguely powerful at times, it nonetheless demands more patience than this viewer had. It's well filmed, but rather static and aloof. None of this is aided by its nearly 4 hour length.

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