Chushingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki

Chushingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki
Directed by	Hiroshi Inagaki
Produced by	Toho
Music by	Akira Ifukube
Release date(s)	November 3, 1962[1] (Japan)
Running time	207 min.[1]
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Chushingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki (忠臣蔵　花の巻　雪の巻), USA title: 47 Samurai; also known as Chushingura: 47 Samurai, Australia title: The 47 Ronin, is a 1962 color (Eastmancolor) jidaigeki(period drama) Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki.

Cast

• Matsumoto Kōshirō as Chamberlain Ōishi Kuranosuke
• Yūzō Kayama as Lord Asano Naganori
• Toshirō Mifune as Genba Tawaraboshi
• Chūsha Ichikawa as Lord Kira Yoshinaka
• Akira Kubo as Lord Date
• and others

See also

• Forty-seven Ronin
• The 47 Ronin (元禄忠臣蔵, Genroku chushingura) - 1941 film by Kenji Mizoguchi
• The Loyal 47 Ronin (忠臣蔵 Chushingura) - 1958 film by Kunio Watanabe
• Nagadosu chūshingura, 1962 action film
• Daichūshingura (大忠臣蔵, Daichūshingura) - 1971 television dramatization
• The Fall of Ako Castle (赤穂城断絶, Akō-jō danzetsu) (aka Swords Of Vengeance) - 1978 film by Kinji Fukasaku
• Matsu no Ōrōka
• List of historical drama films of Asia

References

1. ^ ^{a b} (Japanese) http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1962/cl003560.htm accessed 18 January 2009

External links

• Chushingura - Hana no maki yuki no maki at the Internet Movie Database