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The Loyal 47 Ronin

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Calorie Rating: 195
Released: 1932-12-01
Running Time: 139 Minutes
Studios: Shochiku Kinema (Kamata), Shochiku,


This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier. As the first sound version of the classic narrative, the film was something of an event, and employed a stellar cast, who give a roster of memorable performances. Director Teinosuke Kinugasa was primarily a specialist in jidai-geki (period films), such as the internationally celebrated Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1953), and although he is now most famous as the maker of the avant-garde silent films A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeji, 1926) and Crossroads (Jujiro, 1928), Chushingura is in fact more typical of his output than those experimental works. The film ranked third in that year’s Kinema Junpo critics’ poll, and Joseph Anderson and Donald Richie noted that 'not only the sound but the quick cutting was admired by many critics.

Director / Directors

Tetsuji Watanabe
Assistant Director


Cast

Jusaburo Bando
Character: Kuranosuke Ôishi
Kazuo Hasegawa
Character: Asano Takuminokami and Yoshida Sawaemon (as Chôjirô Hayashi)
Utaemon Ichikawa
Character: Awajinokami Wakisaka / Gorobei Kakimi

Yukichi Iwata
Character: Kurobee Ōno
Hideo Fujino
Character: Hyobu
Sôjin Kamiyama
Character: Kozukenosuke Kira

Kōkichi Takada
Character: Sezaemon Oishi
Masao Hori
Character: Soemon Hara / Kusama Katsunosuke
Eigorō Onoe
Character: Heihachiro Kobayashi

Kōtarō Bandō
Character: Shinzaemon Katsuta
Shoichi Nodera
Character: Yahee Horibe
Hideo Takeda
Character: Gon'uemon Ōkubo

Jun Arai
Character: Miyauchi Saito
Eiji Oshimoto
Character: Chotaro Kasahara
Kashichi Shimada
Character: Tsunanori Uesugi

Ichiro Yuki
Character: Kato
Junosuke Bandô
Character: Emoshichi Yatou
Shōzaburō Mikawa
Character: Kujuro Ono

Shojiro Ogasawara
Character: Hasajiro
Misao Seki
Character: Koyama
Yasurō Shiga
Character: Jūbee Ōtake

Tetsu Tsuboi
Character: Gengoemon Kataoka
Sôroku Kazama
Character: Iori Date
Kokuten Kōdō
Character: Uesugi Family Elder

Tatsuo Saitō
Character: Kazuemon Fuwa
Tokuji Kobayashi
Character: Genzaemon Tonomura
Shinichi Himori
Character: Tanuki

Kenji Oyama
Character: Gengo Ôtaka
Kenichi Miyajima
Character: Kajikawa
Joji Oka
Character: Yanagisawa

Shigeru Ogura
Character: Yuka
Shintarô Takiguchi
Character: Сhikara Ôishi
Jūsaburō Kiso
Character: Makodayu Okuda

Kinnosuke Takamatsu
Character: Genshirō Shindō
Kasuke Koizumi
Character: servant Ono
Kichimatsu Nakamura
Character: Ikkaku Shimizu

Kaoru Yamamoto
Character: Yasuke (Kuranosuke's Servant)
Masatarō Nakamura
Character: Kihei Asakura
Jushiro Kobayashi
Character: Yasube Horibe

Saburō Sawai
Character: Hachirō
Subaru Hirota
Character: Inokō
Haruo Inoue
Character: Magokuro Mase

Kennosuke Uno
Character: Chief Retainer Sōda Magobei
Ryutaro Nagai
Character: servant
Shigeo Shizuyama
Character: Oishi Family Servant

Tokitsugu Ogawa
Character: Kansuke Nakamura
Takeo Nagashima
Character: Yuichi Takebayashi
Yoshito Yamaji
Character: prince Edokko

Kinnosuke Masaki
Character: Cowardly Samurai
Ryoma Kusukabe
Character: Tozaemon Hayamizu
Yoichi Takeuchi
Character: Sanpei Kayano

Hiromitsu Aoki
Character: Genzo Akahani
Yūsaku Takayama
Character: Kira family attendant
Sôemon Wada
Character: Chosuke Yagura

Ichiro Mitsui
Character: Kouemon Onodera
Saburo Chiba
Character: Kira's bodyguard
Kyōzō Fuyuki
Character: Yogoro Kanzaki

Fukumatsu Nakamura
Character: Sukeuemon Kaiga
Tokiichiro Osaki
Character: Senpachi
Sumao Ishihara
Character: Kajimura

Tomio Aoki
Character: boss of the children (as Tokkan Kozô)

Hideo Sugawara
Character: Daisaburō
Takao Kataoka
Character: Daimyo
Yoshiko Kawada
Character: Oriku

Chōko Iida
Character: Nui, Fuwa's wife
Utako Suzuki
Character: Orui's mother
Emiko Yagumo
Character: Tayu Ukihashi

Kinuyo Tanaka
Character: Yae
Hiroko Kawasaki
Character: Yōzen'in
Yoshiko Okada
Character: Orui

Sakiko Yanagi
Character: Toda no Tsubone
Akiko Chihaya
Character: Katsuta's Wife Hikari
Toshiko Iizuka
Character: Kozuma

Kimie Kawakami
Character: Nobuka Geigi
Yoshie Nakagawa
Character: Kuni


Production and Crew

Kōhei Sugiyama
Director of Photography
Hideichi Yamane
Lighting Technician