Akō Rōshi (1961 film)
| Akō Rōshi | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Sadatsugu Matsuda |
| Produced by |
Toei, Shigeru Okada (producer) Hiroshi Okawa (executive producer) |
| Written by |
Hideo Oguni (writer) Kaneto Shindō (writer) |
| Based on | Novel by Jirō Osaragi |
| Cinematography | Shintarō Kawasaki |
Release dates |
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Running time | 150 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Akō Rōshi (赤穂浪士 Akō Rōshi) is a 1961 color Japanese film about the 47 Ronin directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda. It earned ¥435 million at the annual box office, making it the second highest-grossing film of 1961.[2]
Cast
- Kusuo Abe as Katada
- Kyōko Aoyama as Nagi
- Chiyonosuke Azuma as Horibe
- Shinobu Chihara as Ukibashi Dayu
- Yoshiko Fujita as Ayame
- Hiromi Hanazono as Sakura
- Yumiko Hasegawa as Chiyo
- Utaemon Ichikawa as Hizaka
- Chiezō Kataoka as Oishi (Ōishi Yoshio)
- Michiyo Kogure as Oyone
- Jūshirō Konoe as Ikkaku Shimizu
- Hiroki Matsukata as Oishi
- Katsuo Nakamura as Denkichi
- Kinnosuke Nakamura as Wakisaka
- Satomi Oka as Sen
- Hashizo Okawa as Lord Asano (daimyo Asano Naganori)
- Keiko Okawa as Kita no kata
- Denjirō Ōkōchi as Sakon Tachibana
- Ryūtarō Ōtomo as Hotta
- Shunji Sakai as Matsuzo
- Hiroko Sakuramachi as Osaki
- Kōtarō Satomi as Uesugi
- Eitarō Shindō as Denpachiro
- Shin Tokudaiji as Katada
- Ryūnosuke Tsukigata as Lord Kira (Kozunosuke Kira)
- Kenji Usuda as Yahei
- Isao Yamagata as Kataoka
- Eijirō Yanagi as Yanagisawa
See also
other films about Forty-seven ronin:
- The 47 Ronin (元禄忠臣蔵, Genroku chushingura) - 1941 film by Kenji Mizoguchi
- Akō Rōshi: Ten no Maki, Chi no Maki (赤穂浪士 天の巻 地の巻) - 1956 film by Sadatsugu Matsuda
- The 47 Ronin (忠臣蔵 Chushingura) - 1958 film by Kunio Watanabe
- Chushingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki - 1962 film by Hiroshi Inagaki
- Nagadosu chūshingura, 1962 action film by Kunio Watanabe
- Daichūshingura (大忠臣蔵, Daichūshingura) - 1971 television dramatization
- The Fall of Ako Castle (赤穂城断絶, Akō-jō danzetsu) (aka Swords Of Vengeance) - 1978 film by Kinji Fukasaku
References
- ↑ (Japanese) http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1961/ck001520.htm accessed 9 May 2009
- ↑ "nippon-kino.net". Retrieved 2015-02-27.
External links
- Akō Rōshi at the Internet Movie Database
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