Chûshingura
Japan's Supreme Screen Classic
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11/3/1962Runtime
207 minsOverview
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
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An immense, solemn journey through the deliberation and execution of a band-of-brothers revenge quest, where honor and duty move with the weight of ceremony and ritual. The film treats its material with operatic gravity, finding intimacy within an epic scope.
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Matsumoto Hakuō I
Chamberlain Kuranosuke Oishi
Toshirō Mifune
Genba Tawaraboshi
Takashi Shimura
Hyobu Chishaka
Tatsuya Mihashi
Yasubei Horibe
Yūzō Kayama
Lord Naganori Asano
Akira Takarada
Gunpei Takada
Yōsuke Natsuki
Kinemon Okano
Makoto Satō
Kazuemon Fuwa
Tadao Takashima
Jyujiro Kan
Seizaburō Kawazu
Asano Official
Daisuke Katō
Kichiemon Terasaka
Keiju Kobayashi
Awajinokami Wakisake
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