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The 47 Ronin

Original title: Genroku chûshingura
  • 19411941
  • 4h 1m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
2.5K
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Chôjûrô Kawarasaki in The 47 Ronin (1941)
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The legendary Forty-seven ronin plot to avenge the death of their lord, Asano Naganori, by killing Kira Yoshinaka, a shogunate official responsible for Asano being forced to commit seppuku.The legendary Forty-seven ronin plot to avenge the death of their lord, Asano Naganori, by killing Kira Yoshinaka, a shogunate official responsible for Asano being forced to commit seppuku.The legendary Forty-seven ronin plot to avenge the death of their lord, Asano Naganori, by killing Kira Yoshinaka, a shogunate official responsible for Asano being forced to commit seppuku.
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
2.5K
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    • Kenji Mizoguchi
    • Kenichiro Hara(screenplay)
    • Seika Mayama(play)
    • Yoshikata Yoda(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Chôjûrô Kawarasaki
    • Yoshizaburo Arashi
    • Utaemon Ichikawa
    • Kenji Mizoguchi
    • Kenichiro Hara(screenplay)
    • Seika Mayama(play)
    • Yoshikata Yoda(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Chôjûrô Kawarasaki
    • Yoshizaburo Arashi
    • Utaemon Ichikawa
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 22User reviews
    • 25Critic reviews
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    Chôjûrô Kawarasaki and Tsuruzô Nakamura in The 47 Ronin (1941)
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    Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Mieko Takamine, and Tsuruzô Nakamura in The 47 Ronin (1941)
    Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Kunitarô Kawarazaki, Mieko Takamine, and Tsuruzô Nakamura in The 47 Ronin (1941)
    Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Kunitarô Kawarazaki, and Mieko Takamine in The 47 Ronin (1941)
    Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Kunitarô Kawarazaki, and Mieko Takamine in The 47 Ronin (1941)
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    Chôjûrô Kawarasaki
    Chôjûrô Kawarasaki
    • Kuranosuke Ooishi
    Yoshizaburo Arashi
    • Lord Takuminokami Asano
    Utaemon Ichikawa
    • Tsunatoyo Tokugawa
    Kan'emon Nakamura
    Kan'emon Nakamura
    • Sukeimon Tomimori
    Kunitarô Kawarazaki
    Kunitarô Kawarazaki
    • Jurôzaemon Isogai
    Chôemon Bandô
    • Sôemon Hara
    Sukezô Sukedakaya
    • Chûzaemon Yoshida
    Kikunojô Segawa
    • Gengo Ootaka
    • (as Kikunojo Segawa)
    Shotaro Ichikawa
    • Yahei Horibe
    Enji Ichikawa
    • Tadashichi Takebayashi
    Kikunosuke Ichikawa
    • Gengoemon Kataoka
    Shinzô Yamazaki
    • Sezaemon Ooishi
    Senshô Ichikawa
    • Matsunosuke Ooishi
    • (as Sensho Ichikawa)
    Shoji Ichikawa
    • Magoemon Seo
    Iwagoro Ichikawa
    • Fujiemon Hayamizu
    Shinzaburo Ichikawa
    • Matanosuke Ushioda
    Harunosuke Bandô
    • Monzaemon Izeki
    Kimisaburô Nakamura
    • Jûemon Namase
      • Kenji Mizoguchi
      • Kenichiro Hara(screenplay)
      • Seika Mayama(play)
      • Yoshikata Yoda(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      The Japanese Ministry of Information, under the militarist government, commissioned director Kenji Mizoguchi to make this film as a morale booster for the WWII war effort. But it was a commercial failure, being released in Japan one week before the attack on Pearl Harbor. The military and most audiences found the first part of the film to be too slow and serious. However, the studio and Mizoguchi both regarded it as so important that Part 2 was put into production, though Mizoguchi was forced to insert some close-ups of the stars which are totally absent from Part I. The film was finally shown in America in the 1970s.
    • Goofs
      From ~1:40 to ~1:44 an appropriate dialog sequence occurs starting with three men walking a path with one saying "Counselor, the decision has come" and ending with "we need have no fear." That same sequence is duplicated at ~2:22 to ~2:26 with the additional dialog at the end "I want you two to return to Edo at once and inform our brothers there that I will be arriving shortly." This duplicate is out of sequence with the story.
    • Quotes

      Lord Takuminokami Asano: I only regret that I failed to kill Lord Kira and I left him with only superficial wounds. You will no doubt laugh at my ineptitude. I can but ask that I receive the customary punishment.

    • Connections
      Referenced in Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1975)

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    10/10
    We've seen more simplistic and bombastic propaganda, to be sure
    Yes, the pace is slow, yes the movie is long; especially to our eyes used to modern (?) movie-making of the recent years that knows only two rhythms, ultra-fast and ultra-ultra-fast. Yet the story of those 47 ronins, at least for those of us patient enough to enter it, to let themselves flow into it, is all in all very interesting and says a lot about 18th-century Japan. This movie is remarkably well constructed and acted and while the rhythm is slow, it is also implacable : the good side of having a slow rhythm is that you can eventually accelerate, something that ultra-fast doesn't allow.

    But most of all, I notice this : for a film that was supposed to take place into a war-propaganda effort, I do find this tribute to the traditional virtues of the Japanese warrior to be remarkably sober in tone and almost completely devoid of any rhetoric. So, I am not at all surprised to learn that it was a commercial insuccess when it was released in 1941 Japan : for the spirit and inspiration of 'The 47 Ronins' are much too elevated to fit the ultranationalist hysteria of the times.
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      • March 1979 (United States)
      • Japan
      • Japanese
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      • Shochiku
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    • 4 hours 1 minute
      • Black and White
      • Mono

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