The Fall of Ako Castle

The Fall of Ako Castle (1978)

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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  • Release Date: 1978-10-28
  • Runtime: 2h 39min
  • Director: Kinji Fukasaku

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    Cast

    • Kinnosuke Nakamura

      Oishi Kuranosuke

    • Sonny Chiba

      Fuwa Kazuemon

    • Tsunehiko Watase

      Kobayashi Heihachiro

    • Teruhiko Saigō

      Asano

    • Kyōko Enami

      Ukibashi

    • Masaomi Kondo

      Hashimoto Heizaemon

    • Shinsuke Mikimoto

    • Hiroki Matsukata

      Denhachiro Tamon

    • Shinsuke Ashida

      Shikibe

    • Jun Fujimaki

      Yajuemon

    • Takuya Fujioka

      Kurobei Ohno

    • Toshirō Mifune

      Tsuchiya Michinao

    • Seizō Fukumoto

    • Mieko Harada

      Hatsu Hashimoto

    • Nobuo Kaneko

      Kira

    • Yoshi Katō

      Yahei Horibe

    • Toru Minegishi

      Yasubei Horibe

    • Yoshiko Mita

      Akuri

    • Kensaku Morita

      Jujiro

    • Sanae Nakahara

      Todano tsubone

    • Mikio Narita

      Kato

    • Yoko Natsuki

      Osen

    • Ken Nishida

      Daigagu Asano

    • Ryō Nishida

    • Mariko Okada

      Riku Ohishi

    • Junkichi Orimoto

      Tokubei

    • Yûsuke Satô

      Yagashira

    • Harumi Sone

      Torii

    • Mizuho Suzuki

      Narrator

    • Maki Tachibana

      Shino Ohtaka

    • Ryo Tamura

      Uesugi

    • Tetsuro Tamba

      Yanagisawa

    • Minori Terada

      Gengo Ohtaka

    • Go Wakabayashi

      Araki

    • Shōji Yasui

      Uemon

    • Hideji Ōtaki

      Yamada

    • Matagoro Nakamura III

      Date Sakyōnosuke

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