忠臣蔵
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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Genres
Drama
Release
1932-12-01
Cast
三代目 阪東壽三郎
Kuranosuke Ôishi
Kazuo Hasegawa
Asano Takuminokami and Yoshida Sawaemon (as Chôjirô Hayashi)
市川右太衛門
Awajinokami Wakisaka / Gorobei Kakimi
岩田祐吉
Kurobee Ōno
藤野秀夫
Hyobu
Sôjin Kamiyama
Kozukenosuke Kira
高田浩吉
Sezaemon Oishi
堀正夫
Soemon Hara / Kusama Katsunosuke
尾上栄五郎
Heihachiro Kobayashi
坂東好太郎
Shinzaemon Katsuta
野寺正一
Yahee Horibe
武田春郎
Gon'uemon Ōkubo
新井淳
Miyauchi Saito
押本映二
Chotaro Kasahara
Kashichi Shimada
Tsunanori Uesugi
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