The Loyal 47 Ronin

The Loyal 47 Ronin (1932)

Drama

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier. As the first sound version of the classic narrative, the film was something of an event, and employed a stellar cast, who give a roster of memorable performances. Director Teinosuke Kinugasa was primarily a specialist in jidai-geki (period films), such as the internationally celebrated Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1953), and although he is now most famous as the maker of the avant-garde silent films A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeji, 1926) and Crossroads (Jujiro, 1928), Chushingura is in fact more typical of his output than those experimental works. The film ranked third in that year’s Kinema Junpo critics’ poll, and Joseph Anderson and Donald Richie noted that 'not only the sound but the quick cutting was admired by many critics.

Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa
Writer: Teinosuke Kinugasa

Casts

	Jusaburo Bando as Kuranosuke Ôishi
	Kazuo Hasegawa as Asano Takuminokami and Yoshida Sawaemon (as Chôjirô Hayashi)
	Utaemon Ichikawa as Awajinokami Wakisaka / Gorobei Kakimi
	Yukichi Iwata as Kurobee Ōno
	Hideo Fujino as Hyobu
	Sôjin Kamiyama as Kozukenosuke Kira
	Kōkichi Takada as Sezaemon Oishi
	Masao Hori as Soemon Hara / Kusama Katsunosuke
	Eigorō Onoe as Heihachiro Kobayashi
	Kōtarō Bandō as Shinzaemon Katsuta
	Shoichi Nodera as Yahee Horibe
	Hideo Takeda as Gon'uemon Ōkubo
	Jun Arai as Miyauchi Saito
	Eiji Oshimoto as Chotaro Kasahara
	Kashichi Shimada as Tsunanori Uesugi
	Ichiro Yuki as Kato
	Junosuke Bandô as Emoshichi Yatou
	Shōzaburō Mikawa as Kujuro Ono
	Shojiro Ogasawara as Hasajiro
	Misao Seki as Koyama
	Yasurō Shiga as Jūbee Ōtake
	Tetsu Tsuboi as Gengoemon Kataoka
	Sôroku Kazama as Iori Date
	Kokuten Kōdō as Uesugi Family Elder
	Tatsuo Saitō as Kazuemon Fuwa
	Tokuji Kobayashi as Genzaemon Tonomura
	Shinichi Himori as Tanuki
	Kenji Oyama as Gengo Ôtaka
	Kenichi Miyajima as Kajikawa
	Joji Oka as Yanagisawa
	Shigeru Ogura as Yuka
	Shintarô Takiguchi as Сhikara Ôishi
	Jūsaburō Kiso as Makodayu Okuda
	Kinnosuke Takamatsu as Genshirō Shindō
	Kasuke Koizumi as servant Ono
	Kichimatsu Nakamura as Ikkaku Shimizu
	Kaoru Yamamoto as Yasuke (Kuranosuke's Servant)
	Masatarō Nakamura as Kihei Asakura
	Jushiro Kobayashi as Yasube Horibe
	Saburō Sawai as Hachirō
	Subaru Hirota as Inokō
	Haruo Inoue as Magokuro Mase
	Kennosuke Uno as Chief Retainer Sōda Magobei
	Ryutaro Nagai as servant
	Shigeo Shizuyama as Oishi Family Servant
	Tokitsugu Ogawa as Kansuke Nakamura
	Takeo Nagashima as Yuichi Takebayashi
	Yoshito Yamaji as prince Edokko
	Kinnosuke Masaki as Cowardly Samurai
	Ryoma Kusukabe as Tozaemon Hayamizu
	Yoichi Takeuchi as Sanpei Kayano
	Hiromitsu Aoki as Genzo Akahani
	Yūsaku Takayama as Kira family attendant
	Sôemon Wada as Chosuke Yagura
	Ichiro Mitsui as Kouemon Onodera
	Saburo Chiba as Kira's bodyguard
	Kyōzō Fuyuki as Yogoro Kanzaki
	Fukumatsu Nakamura as Sukeuemon Kaiga
	Tokiichiro Osaki as Senpachi
	Sumao Ishihara as Kajimura
	Kōji Mitsui as
	Shozaburo Abe as
	Tomio Aoki as boss of the children (as Tokkan Kozô)
	Hideo Sugawara as Daisaburō
	Takao Kataoka as Daimyo
	Yoshiko Kawada as Oriku
	Chōko Iida as Nui, Fuwa's wife
	Utako Suzuki as Orui's mother
	Emiko Yagumo as Tayu Ukihashi
	Kinuyo Tanaka as Yae
	Hiroko Kawasaki as Yōzen'in
	Yoshiko Okada as Orui
	Sakiko Yanagi as Toda no Tsubone
	Akiko Chihaya as Katsuta's Wife Hikari
	Toshiko Iizuka as Kozuma
	Kimie Kawakami as Nobuka Geigi
	Yoshie Nakagawa as Kuni

Crew