Chūshingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki

Chūshingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki
English language move poster, with Toshiro Mifune
Directed by	Hiroshi Inagaki
Produced by	Tomoyuki Tanaka Sanezumi Fujimoto Hiroshi Inagaki
Music by	Akira Ifukube
Distributed by	Toho
Release dates	3 November 1962 (Japan)[1]
Running time	207 minutes[1]
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Chūshingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki (忠臣蔵　花の巻　雪の巻, USA title: 47 Samurai; also known as Chushingura: 47 Samurai, Australia title: The 47 Ronin) is a 1962 color period drama Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki.

Plot

Following their lord being forced to commit ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.

Cast

• Matsumoto Hakuō I as Chamberlain Ōishi Kuranosuke
• Yūzō Kayama as Lord Asano Naganori
• Tatsuya Mihashi as Horibe Yasubei
• Akira Takarada as Takada Gunbee
• Yosuke Natsuki as Okano Kin'emon
• Makoto Satō as Fuwa Kazuemon
• Tadao Takashima as Jûjirô Hazama
• Toshiro Mifune as Genba Tawaraboshi
• Chūsha Ichikawa as Lord Kira Yoshinaka
• Akira Kubo as Lord Date
• Takashi Shimura as Hyôbu Chisaka
• Daisuke Katō as Kichiemon Terasaka
• Keiju Kobayashi as Awajinokami Wakisaka
• Ryō Ikebe as Chikara Tsuchiya
• Setsuko Hara as Riku
• Yoko Tsukasa as Yôzen'in
• Reiko Dan as Okaru
• Yuriko Hoshi as Otsuya

See also

• Forty-seven Ronin
• The 47 Ronin (元禄忠臣蔵, Genroku Chūshingura) - 1941 film by Kenji Mizoguchi
• The Loyal 47 Ronin (忠臣蔵 Chūshingura) - 1958 film by Kunio Watanabe
• Nagadosu Chūshingura, 1962 action film
• 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
• Matsu no Ōrōka
• List of historical drama films of Asia

References

1. (Japanese) http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1962/cl003560.htm accessed 18 January 2009

External links

• Chūshingura - Hana no maki yuki no maki at the Internet Movie Database