The Fall of Ako Castle

The Fall of Ako Castle

This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe. Lord Asano was goaded, or tricked, into drawing his sword inside the Shogun's palace -- a crime which carried the death penalty. The newly installed Shogun was furious at Asano and ordered all his clan's assets seized, meaning some 20,000 samurai and commoners were unemployed and landless at a stroke. Forty-seven of these ronin (masterless samurai) banded together to take attempt revenge on Lord Kira, who had goaded Asano into drawing his sword.

Cast for The Fall of Ako Castle...

Kinnosuke Nakamura
Oishi Kuranosuke
Sonny Chiba
Fuwa Kazuemon
Tsunehiko Watase
Kobayashi Heihachiro
Kyōko Enami
Ukibashi
Masaomi Kondo
Hashimoto Heizaemon
Hiroki Matsukata
Denhachiro Tamon
Jun Fujimaki
Yajuemon
Takuya Fujioka
Kurobei Ohno
Toshirō Mifune
Tsuchiya Michinao
Mieko Harada
Hatsu Hashimoto
Yoshi Katō
Yahei Horibe
Toru Minegishi
Yasubei Horibe
Sanae Nakahara
Todano tsubone
Ken Nishida
Daigagu Asano
Mariko Okada
Riku Ohishi
Yûsuke Satô
Yagashira
Maki Tachibana
Shino Ohtaka
Tetsurō Tamba
Yanagisawa
Minori Terada
Gengo Ohtaka
Matagoro Nakamura III
Date Sakyōnosuke