is a 1961 color Japanese film about the 47 Ronin directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda. It earned ¥435 million at the annual box office, making it the second highest-grossing Japanese film of 1961. Akō Rōshi was produced by Toei, and Shigeru Okada. It is based on the novel by Jiro Osaragi.
Cast +ActorRoleChiezō KataokaOishi (Ōishi Yoshio)Kinnosuke NakamuraWakisakaChiyonosuke AzumaHoribeHashizo OkawaLord Asano (daimyo Asano Naganori)Satomi OkaSenRyosuke KagawaMatsumae IzunokamiKusuo AbeKatadaKyōko AoyamaNagiShinobu ChiharaUkibashi DayuYoshiko FujitaAyameHiromi HanazonoSakuraYumiko HasegawaChiyoMichiyo KogureOyoneJūshirō KonoeIkkaku ShimizuHiroki MatsukataOishiKatsuo NakamuraDenkichiKeiko OkawaKita no kataDenjirō ŌkōchiSakon TachibanaShunji SakaiMatsuzoHiroko SakuramachiOsakiKōtarō SatomiUesugiShin TokudaijiKatadaKenji UsudaYaheiIsao YamagataKataokaEijirō YanagiYanagisawaEitarō ShindōDenpachiroRyūnosuke TsukigataLord KiraRyūtarō ŌtomoHottaUtaemon IchikawaHizaka
See also Forty-seven Ronin
Other films about Forty-seven ronin: The 47 Ronin (元禄忠臣蔵, Genroku chushingura) – 1941 film by Kenji Mizoguchi Akō Rōshi: Ten no Maki, Chi no Maki (赤穂浪士 天の巻 地の巻) – 1956 film by Sadatsugu Matsuda The Loyal 47 Ronin (忠臣蔵 Chushingura) – 1958 film by Kunio Watanabe, Daiei Chushingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki – 1962 film by Hiroshi Inagaki, Toho Nagadosu chūshingura, 1962 film by Kunio Watanabe 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 Akō Rōshi – 1979 television dramatization
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