Movie: The Loyal 47 Ronin

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Jusaburo Bando
三代目 阪東壽三郎

Kuranosuke Ôishi

Kazuo Hasegawa
長谷川一夫

Asano Takuminokami and Yoshida Sawaemon (as Chôjirô Hayashi)

Utaemon Ichikawa
市川右太衛門

Awajinokami Wakisaka / Gorobei Kakimi

Yukichi Iwata
岩田祐吉

Kurobee Ōno

Hideo Fujino
藤野秀夫

Hyobu

Sôjin Kamiyama
Sôjin Kamiyama

Kozukenosuke Kira

Kōkichi Takada
高田浩吉

Sezaemon Oishi

Masao Hori
堀正夫

Soemon Hara / Kusama Katsunosuke

Eigorō Onoe
尾上栄五郎

Heihachiro Kobayashi

Kōtarō Bandō
坂東好太郎

Shinzaemon Katsuta

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    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.

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    1932-12-01

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