The Loyal 47 Ronin (1958 film)

The Loyal 47 Ronin (忠臣蔵) 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 in Japan.

Plot
The Loyal 47 Ronin tells the true tale of a group of samurai who became rōnin (leaderless samurai) after their daimyō (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.

Cast

 * Kazuo Hasegawa as Ōishi Kuranosuke (Ōishi Yoshio)
 * Shintaro Katsu as Genzō Akagaki
 * Kōji Tsuruta as Kin'emon Okano
 * Raizō Ichikawa as Takuminokami Asano
 * Machiko Kyō as Orui
 * Fujiko Yamamoto as Yōsen'in
 * Michiyo Kogure as Ukihashi
 * Chikage Awashima as Riku Ōishi
 * Ayako Wakao as Osuzu
 * Yatarō Kurokawa as Denpachirō Okado
 * Eiji Funakoshi as Tsunanori Uesugi
 * Eitaro Ozawa as Hyōbu Chisaka
 * Takashi Shimura as Jūbei Ōtake
 * Chieko Higashiyama as Ōishi's mother Otaka
 * Tamao Nakamura as Asano's maid Midori
 * Michiko Ai as Karumo
 * Kazuko Wakamatsu as Osugi
 * Aiko Mimasu as Toda
 * Masao Shimizu as Dewanokami Yanagisawa
 * Jun Tazaki as Ikkaku Shimizu
 * Sonosuke Sawamura as Kazusanokami Sōda
 * Yoshiro Kitahara as Jūjirō Hazama
 * Kazuko Ichikawa as Chonmaru
 * Gen Shimizu as Chūzaemon Yoshida
 * Ichirō Amano as Mankichi
 * Shinobu Araki as Yahei Horibe
 * Toshio Chiba as Heihachirō Yamaoka
 * Saburō Date as Jūheiji Sugino
 * Keiko Fujita as Momiji
 * Ryūji Fukui
 * Yoichi Funaki as Yogorō Kanzaki
 * Fujio Harumoto as Ukyōdayū Tamura
 * Akiko Hasegawa as Okū - Ōishi's daughter
 * Noriko Hodaka as Yūgiri
 * Yukio Horikita as Shinpachirō Yamayoshi
 * Ichirō Izawa as Isuke Maebara
 * Ryōsuke Kagawa as Gengoemon Kataoka
 * Hiroshi Kawaguchi as Chikara Ōishi
 * Jun Negami as Sagaminokami Tsuchiya
 * Nakamura Ganjirō II as Gorobei Kakimi
 * Osamu Takizawa as Kōzukenosuke Kira