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Drama

2h 19m

1932

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...

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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.

DirectorTeinosuke Kinugasa
Release1 December 1932
GenreDrama
Duration2h 19m
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Drama

2h 19m

1932

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Cast

Jusaburo Bando

Kuranosuke Ôishi

Kazuo Hasegawa

Asano Takuminokami and Yoshida Sawaemon (as Chôjirô Hayashi)

Utaemon Ichikawa

Awajinokami Wakisaka / Gorobei Kakimi

Yukichi Iwata

Kurobee Ōno

Hideo Fujino

Hyobu

Sôjin Kamiyama

Kozukenosuke Kira

Kōkichi Takada

Sezaemon Oishi

Eigorō Onoe

Heihachiro Kobayashi

Kōtarō Bandō

Shinzaemon Katsuta

Shoichi Nodera

Yahee Horibe

Hideo Takeda

Gon'uemon Ōkubo

Jun Arai

Miyauchi Saito

Eiji Oshimoto

Chotaro Kasahara

Kashichi Shimada

Tsunanori Uesugi

Ichiro Yuki

Kato

Junosuke Bandô

Emoshichi Yatou

Misao Seki

Koyama

Yasurō Shiga

Jūbee Ōtake

Kokuten Kōdō

Uesugi Family Elder

Tatsuo Saitō

Kazuemon Fuwa

Tokuji Kobayashi

Genzaemon Tonomura

Shinichi Himori

Tanuki

Kenji Oyama

Gengo Ôtaka

Kenichi Miyajima

Kajikawa

Joji Oka

Yanagisawa

Shigeru Ogura

Yuka

Shintarô Takiguchi

Сhikara Ôishi

Kasuke Koizumi

servant Ono

Yoshito Yamaji

prince Edokko

Kyōzō Fuyuki

Yogoro Kanzaki

Kōji Mitsui

Tomio Aoki

boss of the children (as Tokkan Kozô)

Hideo Sugawara

Daisaburō

Takao Kataoka

Daimyo

Yoshiko Kawada

Oriku

Chōko Iida

Nui, Fuwa's wife

Utako Suzuki

Orui's mother

Emiko Yagumo