Plot
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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Cast
Jusaburo Bando
Kuranosuke Ôishi
Kazuo Hasegawa
Asano Takuminokami and Yoshida Sawaemon (as Chôjirô Hayashi)
Utaemon Ichikawa
Awajinokami Wakisaka / Gorobei Kakimi
Yukichi Iwata
Kurobee Ōno
Hideo Fujino
Hyobu
Sôjin Kamiyama
Kozukenosuke Kira
Kōkichi Takada
Sezaemon Oishi
Masao Hori
Soemon Hara / Kusama Katsunosuke
Eigorō Onoe
Heihachiro Kobayashi
Kōtarō Bandō
Shinzaemon Katsuta
Shoichi Nodera
Yahee Horibe
Hideo Takeda
Gon'uemon Ōkubo
Jun Arai
Miyauchi Saito
Eiji Oshimoto
Chotaro Kasahara
Kashichi Shimada
Tsunanori Uesugi
Ichiro Yuki
Kato
Junosuke Bandô
Emoshichi Yatou
Shōzaburō Mikawa
Kujuro Ono
Shojiro Ogasawara
Hasajiro
Misao Seki
Koyama
Yasurō Shiga
Jūbee Ōtake
Tetsu Tsuboi
Gengoemon Kataoka
Sôroku Kazama
Iori Date
Kokuten Kōdō
Uesugi Family Elder
Tatsuo Saitō
Kazuemon Fuwa
Tokuji Kobayashi
Genzaemon Tonomura
Shinichi Himori
Tanuki
Kenji Oyama
Gengo Ôtaka
Kenichi Miyajima
Kajikawa
Joji Oka
Yanagisawa
Shigeru Ogura
Yuka
Shintarô Takiguchi
Сhikara Ôishi
Jūsaburō Kiso
Makodayu Okuda
Kinnosuke Takamatsu
Genshirō Shindō
Kasuke Koizumi
servant Ono
Kichimatsu Nakamura
Ikkaku Shimizu
Kaoru Yamamoto
Yasuke (Kuranosuke's Servant)
Masatarō Nakamura
Kihei Asakura
Jushiro Kobayashi
Yasube Horibe
Saburō Sawai
Hachirō
Subaru Hirota
Inokō
Haruo Inoue
Magokuro Mase
Kennosuke Uno
Chief Retainer Sōda Magobei
Ryutaro Nagai
servant
Shigeo Shizuyama
Oishi Family Servant
Tokitsugu Ogawa
Kansuke Nakamura
Takeo Nagashima
Yuichi Takebayashi
Yoshito Yamaji
prince Edokko
Kinnosuke Masaki
Cowardly Samurai
Ryoma Kusukabe
Tozaemon Hayamizu
Yoichi Takeuchi
Sanpei Kayano
Hiromitsu Aoki
Genzo Akahani
Yūsaku Takayama
Kira family attendant
Sôemon Wada
Chosuke Yagura
Ichiro Mitsui
Kouemon Onodera
Tomio Aoki
boss of the children (as Tokkan Kozô)
Hideo Sugawara
Daisaburō
Hiroko Kawasaki
Yōzen'in
Kinuyo Tanaka
Yae
Yoshiko Okada
Orui
Yoshiko Kawada
Oriku
Chōko Iida
Nui, Fuwa's wife
Utako Suzuki
Orui's mother
Akiko Chihaya
Katsuta's Wife Hikari
Kimie Kawakami
Nobuka Geigi
Yoshie Nakagawa
Kuni
Saburo Chiba
Kira's bodyguard
Kyōzō Fuyuki
Yogoro Kanzaki
