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Street of Ronin (1957)
Directed by Masahiro Makino
Overview
Based on the famous novel by Yamagami Itaro, this is the story of a group of ronin living in abject poverty in the latter days of the Edo period. Starring the great Konoe Jushiro, Ronin Gai is populated by an ensemble of colorful characters, social outcasts who patronize a restaurant and bar on the outskirts of Edo. Among them are masterless samurai reduced to drunkenness and debauchery. One disgraced and disillusioned former warrior gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to retrieve a famous knife from a corrupt lord. This is the third version directed by Makino Masahiro and is considered a true classic.
Length 110 minutes
Actors
Susumu Fujita | Seizaburô Kawazu | Tatsuya Ishiguro | Mieko Takamine | Jûshirô Konoe | Gen Shimizu | Kenzô Tanaka | Saburô Nagaoka | Ichirô Ryûzaki | Yataro Kitagami | Chizuko Nogami | Kenji Mori | Hideo Hongo | Choji Oka | Shigeo Shizuyama | Machiko Mizuhara | Kurumi Yamabato | Noboru Umezawa | Ichirô Izumi | Toshie Nakajima | Takeshi Osada | Naojiro Umemura | Isamu Sakurai | Reizaburo Umewaka | Morie Ishida | Haruji Inoue | Jirô Môri | Yoshihiko Uemura | Giichi Okaichi | Ichirô Fushimi | Yoshiya Fujiyama | Ryô Miyadzu | Hisano Yamato | Fusako Suzuki | Kazuko Futaba | Michiyo Azuma | Teruko Mikasa | Toshiko Uno | Mihoko Kawahara