The 47 Ronin (1941 film)

The 47 Ronin (元禄 忠臣蔵, Genroku Chūshingura, "The Treasury of Loyal Retainers of the Genroku era") is a 1941/1942 black-and-white two-part jidaigeki Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, adapted from a play by Seika Mayama. The film chronicles the end of the lives of the forty-seven Ronin.

Cast

Actors in the film include:

Chojuro Kawarasaki as Ōishi Kuranosuke (Ōishi Yoshio)

Kanemon Nakamura as Sukeimon Tomimori

Kunitaro Kawarazaki as Isogai Jurozaemon

Yoshizaburo Arashi as daimyo Asano Naganori

Daisuke Katō as Fuwa Kazuemon

Tokusaburo Arashi(?) 嵐徳三郎 as Okuno Shōgen

Ryū Ōkōchi 大河内龍 as 奥田孫兵衛

Isamu Kosugi as Okado Shigetomo

Masao Shimizu as 加藤越中守

Utaemon Ichikawa as Tokugawa Tsunatoyo

Seizaburō Kawazu as Lord Etchumori Hosokawa

Mantoyo Mimasu as Kira Kozukenosuke

Mitsuko Miura as Yosenin, Lady Asano, Asano's wife

Mieko Takamine as Omino, Isogai's fiancee