The Loyal 47 Ronin
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Director Kunio Watanabe Initial DVD release April 7, 2009 Duration Country Japan | 7.2/10 IMDb Genre Drama Music director Ichiro Saito Language Japanese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Kunio Watanabe , Fuji Yahiro Release date April 1, 1958 (Japan) Cast Kazuo Hasegawa , Shintaro Katsu , Koji Tsuruta , Machiko Kyo , Fujiko Yamamoto Similar movies Warau Iemon , Bakumatsu , Gonza the Spearman , Sword of Desperation , Devil's Temple | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Loyal 47 Ronin (忠臣蔵, Chūshingura) is a 1958 color jidaigeki (period drama) Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe. With box office earnings of ¥410 million, it was the most successful film of 1958 in Japan. Furthermore, it was the second highest grossing film of the 1950s.
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Plot
The Loyal 47 Ronin tells the true tale of a group of samurai who became rōnin (leaderless samurai) after their daimyo (feudal lord) Asano Naganori was compelled to commit seppuku (ritual suicide) for assaulting a court official, Kira Yoshinaka, who had insulted him. After carefully planning for over a year, they execute a daring assault on their sworn enemy's estate, and exact their revenge, knowing that they themselves would be forced to share their Lord's fate to atone for their crime.
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