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Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal followers (now Ronin, masterless Samurai) dedicate their lives to avenging his death.
Keywords
japan
samurai
based on novel or book
jidaigeki
edo period
tactical warfare
Casts

Ken Takakura
Kuranosuke Oishi

Kiichi Nakai
Matashiro Irobe

Rie Miyazawa
Karu

Koji Ishizaka
Yoshiyasu Yanagisawa

Ruriko Asaoka
Riku

Hisaya Morishige
Hyobu Chisaka

Ryudo Uzaki
Yasubê Horibe

Tatsuo Matsumura
Yahê Horibe

Hisashi Igawa
Okuda

Gaku Yamamoto
Chûzaemon Yoshida

Shigeru Kōyama
Jûnai Onodera

Isao Bitō

Jun Hashizume

Renji Ishibashi
Heihachirô Kobayashi

Saburo Ishikura
Yuka Kono

Hitomi Kuroki

Misa Shimizu

Yuko Kotegawa

Kikunosuke Onoe V

B-saku Satoh

Michino Yokoyama

Akiji Kobayashi

Akira Kubo

Gen Idemitsu

Masayuki Imai
Toshi Shioya

Kō Nishimura

Ken Kobayashi

Hirokazu Inoue
Yuzuru Nishimura
Shinji Yamaguchi

Atsuo Nakamura

Eiji Bandō

Nenji Kobayashi
Shirou Kajiwara
Narrator
Crews
Yo Takeyama
Screenplay

Kon Ichikawa
Screenplay
Kaneo Ikegami
Screenplay

Kon Ichikawa
Director
Kaneo Ikegami
Original Story
Toshimasa Miyamura
Assistant Director

Yoshirō Muraki
Production Design
Chizuko Osada
Editor
Ikuko Saito
Costumer
Kazuo Shimomura
Gaffer
Yukio Isohata
Director of Photography
Kensaku Tanikawa
Original Music Composer
Masao Iwase
Music Producer
Masatoshi Saito
Sound Effects
Hidehiko Takei
Associate Producer

Yoshishige Shimatani
Producer
Jun'ichi Shindô
Producer