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The Loyal 47 Ronin

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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.

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Teinosuke Kinugasa
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Teinosuke Kinugasa
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Jusaburo Bando
Jusaburo Bando
Kuranosuke Ôishi
Kazuo Hasegawa
Kazuo Hasegawa
Asano Takuminokami and Yoshida Sawaemon (as Chôjirô Hayashi)
Utaemon Ichikawa
Utaemon Ichikawa
Awajinokami Wakisaka / Gorobei Kakimi
Kōtarō Bandō
Kōtarō Bandō
Shinzaemon Katsuta
Kōkichi Takada
Kōkichi Takada
Sezaemon Oishi

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