The Loyal 47 Ronin

Dec 1, 1932

2h 19m

★ 0.0

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Shochiku Kinema (Kamata)

Shochiku

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Cast

Kuranosuke Ôishi

Jusaburo Bando

Asano Takuminokami and Yoshida Sawaemon (as Chôjirô Hayashi)

Kazuo Hasegawa

Awajinokami Wakisaka / Gorobei Kakimi

Utaemon Ichikawa

Kurobee Ōno

Yukichi Iwata

Hyobu

Hideo Fujino

Kozukenosuke Kira

Sôjin Kamiyama

Sezaemon Oishi

Kōkichi Takada

Soemon Hara / Kusama Katsunosuke

Masao Hori

Heihachiro Kobayashi

Eigorō Onoe

Shinzaemon Katsuta

Kōtarō Bandō

Yahee Horibe

Shoichi Nodera

Gon'uemon Ōkubo

Hideo Takeda

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