Watch The Fall of Ako Castle (1978) : Full Movie Online Free 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.
| Title | The Fall of Ako Castle |
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| Release Date | Oct 28, 1978 |
| Genres | Action, Drama, History, |
| Production Company | Toei Company |
| Production Countries | Japan |
| Casts | Kinnosuke Nakamura, Sonny Chiba, Tsunehiko Watase, Teruhiko Saigō, Kyōko Enami, Masaomi Kondo, Shinsuke Mikimoto, Hiroki Matsukata, Shinsuke Ashida, Jun Fujimaki, Takuya Fujioka |
| Plot Keywords | samurai, jidaigeki, edo period, vengeance, chushingura, |
Oishi Kuranosuke
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Fuwa Kazuemon
Sonny Chiba
Kobayashi Heihachiro
Tsunehiko Watase
Asano
Teruhiko Saigō
Ukibashi
Kyōko Enami
Hashimoto Heizaemon
Masaomi Kondo
Denhachiro Tamon
Hiroki Matsukata
Shikibe
Shinsuke Ashida
Yajuemon
Jun Fujimaki
Kurobei Ohno
Takuya Fujioka
Tsuchiya Michinao
Toshirō Mifune
Hatsu Hashimoto
Mieko Harada
Kira
Nobuo Kaneko
Yahei Horibe
Yoshi Katō
Yasubei Horibe
Toru Minegishi
Akuri
Yoshiko Mita
Jujiro
Kensaku Morita
Todano tsubone
Sanae Nakahara
Kato
Mikio Narita
Osen
Yoko Natsuki
Daigagu Asano
Ken Nishida
Riku Ohishi
Mariko Okada
Tokubei
Junkichi Orimoto
Yagashira
Yûsuke Satô
Torii
Harumi Sone
Narrator
Mizuho Suzuki
Shino Ohtaka
Maki Tachibana
Uesugi
Ryo Tamura
Yanagisawa
Tetsuro Tamba
Gengo Ohtaka
Minori Terada
Araki
Go Wakabayashi
Uemon
Shōji Yasui
Yamada
Hideji Ōtaki
Date Sakyōnosuke
Matagoro Nakamura III
