The Loyal 47 Ronin

is a 1958 color jidaigeki (period drama) Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe. With box office earnings of ¥410 million, it was the most successful film of 1958 in Japan. Furthermore, it was the second-highest-grossing film of the 1950s in Japan. Plot The Loyal 47 Ronin tells the true tale of a group of samurai who became rōnin (leaderless samurai) after their daimyō (feudal lord) Asano Naganori was compelled to commit seppuku (ritual suicide) for assaulting a court official, Kira Yoshinaka, who had insulted him. After carefully planning for over a year, they execute a daring assault on their sworn enemy's estate, and exact their revenge, knowing that they themselves would be forced to share their Lord's fate to atone for their crime. Cast Kazuo Hasegawa as Ōishi Kuranosuke (Ōishi Yoshio) Shintaro Katsu as Genzō Akagaki Kōji Tsuruta as Kin'emon Okano Raizō Ichikawa as Takuminokami Asano Machiko Kyō as Orui Fujiko Yamamoto as Yōsen'in Michiyo Kogure as Ukihashi Chikage Awashima as Riku Ōishi Ayako Wakao as Osuzu Yatarō Kurokawa as Denpachirō Okado Eiji Funakoshi as Tsunanori Uesugi Eitaro Ozawa as Hyōbu Chisaka Takashi Shimura as Jūbei Ōtake Chieko Higashiyama as Ōishi's mother Otaka Tamao Nakamura as Asano's maid Midori Michiko Ai as Karumo Kazuko Wakamatsu as Osugi Aiko Mimasu as Toda Masao Shimizu as Dewanokami Yanagisawa Jun Tazaki as Ikkaku Shimizu Sonosuke Sawamura as Kazusanokami Sōda Yoshiro Kitahara as Jūjirō Hazama Kazuko Ichikawa as Chonmaru Gen Shimizu as Chūzaemon Yoshida Ichirō Amano as Mankichi Shinobu Araki as Yahei Horibe Toshio Chiba as Heihachirō Yamaoka Saburō Date as Jūheiji Sugino Keiko Fujita as Momiji Ryūji Fukui Yoichi Funaki as Yogorō Kanzaki Fujio Harumoto as Ukyōdayū Tamura Akiko Hasegawa as Okū - Ōishi's daughter Noriko Hodaka as Yūgiri Yukio Horikita as Shinpachirō Yamayoshi Ichirō Izawa as Isuke Maebara Ryōsuke Kagawa as Gengoemon Kataoka Hiroshi Kawaguchi as Chikara Ōishi Jun Negami as Sagaminokami Tsuchiya Nakamura Ganjirō II as Gorobei Kakimi Osamu Takizawa as Kōzukenosuke Kira