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Directed by
Hiroshi Inagaki 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Shoraku Miyoshi  play "Kanadehon Chushingura"
Senryu Namiki  play "Kanadehon Chushingura"
Izumo Takeda  play "Kanadehon Chushingura"
Toshio Yasumi  writer

Cast (in credits order) complete, awaiting verification
Koshiro Matsumoto ... Chamberlain Kuranosuke Oishi (as Matsumoto Koshiro IX)
Yuzo Kayama ... Lord Naganori Asano
Tatsuya Mihashi ... Yasubei Horibe
Akira Takarada ... Gunpei Takada
Yosuke Natsuki ... Kinemon Okano
Makoto Satô ... Kazuemon Fuwa
Tadao Takashima ... Jyujiro Kan
Seizaburô Kawazu ... Asano Official
Takashi Shimura ... Hyobu Chishaka
Daisuke Katô ... Kichiemon Terasaka
Keiju Kobayashi ... Awajinokami Wakisake (Lord Awaji)
Ryo Ikebe ... Chikara Tsuchiya
Setsuko Hara ... Riku Oishi
Yôko Tsukasa ... Aguri Asano
Reiko Dan ... Okaru
Yuriko Hoshi ... Otsuya
Yumi Shirakawa ... Ume
Kumi Mizuno ... Saho
Mie Hama ... Woman Refugee
Nami Tamura
Yôko Fujiyama ... Miyuki the Asano maid
Junko Ikeuchi ... Ofumi, of the tea shop
Keiko Awaji ... Otoki, Hanbei's wife
Mitsuko Kusabue
Michiyo Aratama ... Ukigumo
Hisaya Morishige ... Hanbei
Frankie Sakai ... Heigoro the carpenter
Norihei Miki ... Toshibei, the male geisha
Kingoro Yanagiya ... Otokichi, of the tatami shop
Yoshitomi Masuda ... Tachu Matsubara (as Yoshitomi 'Keaton' Masuda)
Mutoshi Yanami ... Tokuzo, of the Ueki shop
Toru Yuri ... Nonta, Heigoro's cousin
Toshiaki Minami ... Denpachi, Heigoro's cousin
Kyu Sazanka ... Debashu Yanagisawa
Ichirô Arishima ... Lord Denpachiro Tamura
Hiroshi Koizumi ... Gengo Otaka
Yu Fujiki ... Yushichi Takebayashi
Akira Kubo ... Lord Date
Akihiko Hirata ... Yajuemon Okajima
Kenji Sahara ... Asano Samurai
Hiroshi Tachikawa ... Aminori Uesugi
Tatsuyoshi Ehara ... Daigaku Asano
Tadao Nakamaru ... Heihachiro Kobayashi
Sachio Sakai ... Shusui Kishima, the spy
Yoshio Tsuchiya ... Matanosho Shoita, Saho's brother
Kamatari Fujiwara ... Kyubei the innkeeper
Jun Tazaki ... Kiken Murakami
Susumu Fujita ... Yosubei Kajikawa
Ken Uehara ... Seikanji, of the Chunagons
Jun Funato ... Sanjyuji Kaizuka
Kiyoshi Kodama
Hisaya Ito ... Sezaemon Oishi
Kôzô Nomura
Ko Mishima
Kunio Otsuka
Ren Yamamoto ... Asano Samurai
Eisei Amamoto ... Takano, of the Chunagons (as Hideyo Amamoto)
Nadao Kirino ... Asana Samurai
Heihachiro Okawa ... Katafu Kanse
Shigeki Ishida ... Rishichi
Akira Tani
Yoshifumi Tajima
Ikio Sawamura ... Tatami Maker
Yoshio Kosugi ... Yahei Hattori, Yasubei's father
Sonomi Nakajima ... Otama
Machiko Kitagawa ... Okyo, the bathing guard
Keiko Yanagawa
Mieko Beni
Misako Asuka
Hiromi Mineoka
Yaeko Izumo
Haruko Togo ... Okyo, Sasaya's wife
Atsuko Ichinomiya ... Otomi, Kyubei's wife
Chieko Nakakita ... Ofude
Ryosuke Kagawa ... Souemon Hara
Shôji Kiyokawa ... Matazaemon Fujii
Unpei Yokoyama ... Matsuemon, Heigoro's uncle
Haruya Kato
Yoji Misaki
Gen Shimizu ... Gensuke Koga
Jotaro Togami ... Ikaku Shimizu
Sadako Sawamura ... Tomiko, Konosuke's wife
Kiyoko Tsuji
Kumeko Otowa
Teruko Mita
Noriko Sakabe
Naoko Sakabe
Senkichi Omura ... Citizen at collapsed bridge
Shin Otomo
Yutaka Nakayama
Mitsuo Tsuda
Keiichiro Katsumoto
Hiroshi Agetsu
Haruo Suzuki
Jun Kuroki
Kanso Uni
Koji Iwamoto
Katsumi Tezuka
Akio Kusama
Kaneyuki Tsubono
Kosuke Uruki
Rinsaku Ogata
Hiroshi Sekita
Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi
Masaki Shinohara
Ryuichi Hosokawa
Saburo Kadowaki
Tadashi Okabe
Akira Yamada
Junpei Natsuki
Koichi Sato
Kenzo Echigo
Jiro Mitsuaki
Ichirô Chiba ... Yanagihara of the Dainagons
Shôji Ikeda
Junichirô Mukai
Shogoro Ichikawa
Mannosuke Nakamura ... Sanpei Kanno
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Michael Higgins ... Narrator (1963 US version) (voice)
Chûsha Ichikawa ... Lord Yoshinaga Kira
Toshirô Mifune ... Genba Tawaraboshi
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Produced by
Sanezumi Fujimoto .... executive producer
Hiroshi Inagaki .... executive producer
Edward Landberg .... producer (1966 US version)
Tomoyuki Tanaka .... executive producer
 
Original Music by
Akira Ifukube 
 
Cinematography by
Kazuo Yamada 
 
Film Editing by
Koichi Iwashita  (as Hirokazu Iwashita)
 
Production Design by
Kisaku Ito 
 
Production Management
Shôtarô Kawakami .... production manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Teruo Maru .... assistant director
Masahiro Takase .... chief assistant director
 
Art Department
Hiroshi Ueda .... assistant art director
 
Sound Department
Yoshio Nishikawa .... sound recordist
Hisashi Shimonaga .... sound mixer
 
Special Effects by
Eiji Tsuburaya .... special effects director
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Shoshichi Kojima .... lighting technician
Matsuo Yoshizaki .... still photographer
 
Other crew
Steve Barger .... subtitler (US video version)
Audie Bock .... subtitle editor (US video version)
Ryu Kuze .... swordplay choreographer
Kiyokata Seruwaka .... choreographer
Herman G. Weinberg .... subtitler: English
 
Crew believed to be complete


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